Scroll down for the article about a provision in the Senate bill making it unrepealable by any future Congress.
The biggest news this week was of course the Senate passing their version of the health care bill. First they overcame the 60-vote supermajority required to end debate on the bill by buying off weak senators like Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu. Even Joe Lieberman voted to end debate, which again just goes to show that at the end of the day, Democrats are still liberal. There are no conservative Democrats. Though it eventually passed with a majority in the Senate, the bills still have to go to committee to be reconciled. There is some hope though, in that the House Democrats are unlikely to vote for the reconciled bill unless it contains an abortion provision, while the Senate will have a tough time keeping Senators in line unless the abortion provision is absent.
Some quick thoughts (and quotes from others):
1. Obama said in his speech about the health care bill cutting the deficit. The only way it cuts the deficit is by paying for taxes for 10 years but only receiving the supposed benefits for 6. So in the 10 years after that, will it continue to cut the deficit? Of course that is unrealistic anyways. Harry Reid would not let anyone see the bill, and the Congressional Budget Office has to score the bill made on assumptions. If the assumptions are faulty (usually are, and in this case most definitely so), the score on the bill will be faulty.
2. In the same speech Obama said the tax cuts are responsible for buying things we can't pay for, meaning tax cuts result in fewer dollars coming into the Treasury. Of course, tax cuts increased revenue to the government (the Laffer curve), so what is Obama talking about? The Democrats always love to bring this up before they are about to hike taxes. Then we will hear media stories of how experts are shocked that revenues to the government didn't increase as much as expected (very short term it will almost always increase). As it comes to paying for things, Obama is projected to spend more in his first year than all of Bush's eight years combined.
3. Harry Reid said in his Senate speech that 2 Americans die every 10 minutes because of our broken system. But the bill wouldn't go into effect until 2014, meaning it is okay with Democrats to supposedly let 420,840 people die because of our health care system (12 per hour x 24 hours x 365 days x 4 years) until the bill finally goes into effect. Which, as we all know, the government will be able to prevent death with their vast knowledge of business and the marketplace.
4. Most politicians have zero expertise in fixing anything or even running a business. Yet in areas like global warming, we are told we must trust the experts (experts meaning only those who agree with Democrats). By that logic, we should not trust them to do anything, correct? Their only expertise is politics.
5. Also we keep being told (by Harry Reid mostly) that we will simply love the Senate health care bill, yet he would not let us see the bill. If we would love it, why not let us see the wonderful bill and end all opposition to it?
6. We were also told when government was deciding the pay of bailout companies that of course it would not mean the government could do that to anyone else. Well, in the Senate bill that we could finally see after they voted on it, it turns out the government was going to regulate the pay for CEOs of insurance companies. Do we live in the Soviet Union or the United States?
7. Thomas Sowell: "Global warming" hysteria is only the latest in this long line of notions, whose main argument is that there is no argument, because it is "science."
MUST READ
* What should outrage everyone about the Senate bill is that part of it is unrepealable by this Congress or any future Congress. Again, Soviet Union or the United States?
* We are so foolish for not realizing that government can just pass a law and all will be fixed. So, as the author here points out, why not just make poverty against the law?
* Remember this when you hear about moderate or conservative Democrats.
What Media Bias?
* I always love posting these. The Media Research Center's awards for media bias.
* Wonder if this, a Democrat changing parties, will get as much coverage as if the reverse were true.
Experts Stunned Again
* GDP gets revised downward. I don't like bad news, but this surely can't come as a shock every time.
Silly Liberals
* Another hate crimes hoaxer pleads guilty.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Another busy week. Harry Reid is buying off Senate votes with the health care bill. This time, supposedly conservative Democrat Ben Nelson. Just going to show that politicians rarely have principles they stand on. Even Joe Lieberman got a few concessions on the bill and will not stand in the way of blocking the bill. Weeks ago, it was Mary Landrieu with a $300 million buy-off. Of course, we still don't have any money to spend (and China is talking about not buying any more US debt). President Obama in his 60 Minutes interview talked about not helping out fat-cat bankers on Wall Street. This is so laughable, since he doesn't mind helping out his fat-cat donors, helping out his fat-cat supporters (like ACORN), or paying off fat-cat politicians with taxpayer dollars. All of politics is about paying off those who helped you. Notice too that this is a pattern with Obama. Attacking the productive in our society.
Speaking of fat-cats...does Obama care about those who actually worked to get to where they are? Democrat politicians and liberals always make it seem like people in the free market don't earn their keep, but it is those politicians who don't earn their keep and promote policies that reward those who don't produce.
MUST READ
* How many of these kind of statements do we not catch? "The world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait". Democrats at the time, including Joe Biden (current U.S. Vice President) and John Kerry (2004 Democratic nominee for President), didn't even recognize the need to confront Saddam. If only we had a media that called both parties on their statements.
* A great series of excerpts from the next book I will be buying regarding the housing boom and bust.
* It seems as if Obama's plan all along was to institute single-payer through expanding Medicare.
* Ann Coulter spot on. More money for less care.
* Employees in one sector are doing just fine. Government. Not only do they earn more, but their perks are much more too.
* More evidence that the stimulus was designed to reward Democrat constituencies. This time, those districts receiving more than twice the amount of Republican districts, not to mention there being no correlation between what amount was spent to unemployment or other economic indicators.
What Global Warming?
* Ever notice something about evidence that gives doubt to global warming? We are told that this isn't contrary proof to global warming. Same thing with any liberal beliefs,like Darwinism, DDT, embryonic stem cells, etc. Any contrary proof must be ignored, downplayed, or suppressed.
* Remember when Tea Party protests were being labeled as astroturfing? Meaning they were not real protests by ordinary people, but staged. Of course, like usual, the astroturfing happens on the left. Notice too that the signs are in English (not that it constitutes proof of astroturfing, but that it might be a ploy to lure susceptible US media).
* Tony Blair in so many words saying that even if the science isn't correct we need to do something. Huh?
Health Care
* Democrats continue to pull out all the stops, citing phony studies from left-wing advocacy groups.
Silly Liberals
* More tolerance from lefties. And more examples from the past for their tolerance for opposing viewpoints.
Speaking of fat-cats...does Obama care about those who actually worked to get to where they are? Democrat politicians and liberals always make it seem like people in the free market don't earn their keep, but it is those politicians who don't earn their keep and promote policies that reward those who don't produce.
MUST READ
* How many of these kind of statements do we not catch? "The world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait". Democrats at the time, including Joe Biden (current U.S. Vice President) and John Kerry (2004 Democratic nominee for President), didn't even recognize the need to confront Saddam. If only we had a media that called both parties on their statements.
* A great series of excerpts from the next book I will be buying regarding the housing boom and bust.
* It seems as if Obama's plan all along was to institute single-payer through expanding Medicare.
* Ann Coulter spot on. More money for less care.
* Employees in one sector are doing just fine. Government. Not only do they earn more, but their perks are much more too.
* More evidence that the stimulus was designed to reward Democrat constituencies. This time, those districts receiving more than twice the amount of Republican districts, not to mention there being no correlation between what amount was spent to unemployment or other economic indicators.
What Global Warming?
* Ever notice something about evidence that gives doubt to global warming? We are told that this isn't contrary proof to global warming. Same thing with any liberal beliefs,like Darwinism, DDT, embryonic stem cells, etc. Any contrary proof must be ignored, downplayed, or suppressed.
* Remember when Tea Party protests were being labeled as astroturfing? Meaning they were not real protests by ordinary people, but staged. Of course, like usual, the astroturfing happens on the left. Notice too that the signs are in English (not that it constitutes proof of astroturfing, but that it might be a ploy to lure susceptible US media).
* Tony Blair in so many words saying that even if the science isn't correct we need to do something. Huh?
Health Care
* Democrats continue to pull out all the stops, citing phony studies from left-wing advocacy groups.
Silly Liberals
* More tolerance from lefties. And more examples from the past for their tolerance for opposing viewpoints.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Not much for commentary this week besides Rush Limbaugh's take on "hope and change". He calls it "hoax and chains".
MUST READ
* Fantastic article about how you will lose your insurance and you will have to pay for abortion.
* The EPA has ruled that greenhouse gases are hazardous to humans, which allows the EPA to regulate them. For one thing, we exhale carbon dioxide...does that make us pollutants as well (and doesn't plant life rely on carbon dioxide)?
* The EPA definitely has it out for carbon. Of course they are trying to save the planet...right?
* A long but great summary of the whole climate fraud. A new development can be found on page 8 about the possible use of a fudge factor which is skewed to alter the data more heavily in the last 40 years.
* One would think the wonders of government-run health care would be showing in Canada and Great Britain. As it turns out though, Britain is among the worst in heart and cancer survival rates. If only our media would actually report it.
From The Archives
* A great speech from Michael Crichton about the intermixing of politics and science.
Global Warming
* All these climate zealots are hypocrites. Think that people like Al Gore will ever have to relinquish their private jets?
* I wish the release of the emails was the true end of global warming. However, liberals have boundless energy and are impervious to facts, so we will likely have to deal with it anyways.
* Unintended consequences. Stoplights freeze over because LED lights don't give off as much heat as incandescent light bulbs. Thankfully, Congress took all factors into account...er wait.
Silly Liberals
* Another liberal eager for debate.
Health Care
* Democrats will stoop to any level to smear health care reform opponents. Senate Majority Leader Reid is comparing opponents to the Democrats of the civil rights era.
MUST READ
* Fantastic article about how you will lose your insurance and you will have to pay for abortion.
* The EPA has ruled that greenhouse gases are hazardous to humans, which allows the EPA to regulate them. For one thing, we exhale carbon dioxide...does that make us pollutants as well (and doesn't plant life rely on carbon dioxide)?
* The EPA definitely has it out for carbon. Of course they are trying to save the planet...right?
* A long but great summary of the whole climate fraud. A new development can be found on page 8 about the possible use of a fudge factor which is skewed to alter the data more heavily in the last 40 years.
* One would think the wonders of government-run health care would be showing in Canada and Great Britain. As it turns out though, Britain is among the worst in heart and cancer survival rates. If only our media would actually report it.
From The Archives
* A great speech from Michael Crichton about the intermixing of politics and science.
Global Warming
* All these climate zealots are hypocrites. Think that people like Al Gore will ever have to relinquish their private jets?
* I wish the release of the emails was the true end of global warming. However, liberals have boundless energy and are impervious to facts, so we will likely have to deal with it anyways.
* Unintended consequences. Stoplights freeze over because LED lights don't give off as much heat as incandescent light bulbs. Thankfully, Congress took all factors into account...er wait.
Silly Liberals
* Another liberal eager for debate.
Health Care
* Democrats will stoop to any level to smear health care reform opponents. Senate Majority Leader Reid is comparing opponents to the Democrats of the civil rights era.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Another slow week, and to be honest I have been a little detached since the Thanksgiving break. No worries it will be better next week.
MUST READ
* Henry Waxman saying that government will need to help shape US media. This should worry everyone out there. The talk right now is just about bailing out newspapers, but when have you known government to stop at anything, especially the federal government? I know Waxman knows about the new media emerging on the internet, and people like him just simply don't like it.
* Howard Dean declares the debate between capitalism and socialism is over. Seems to be a common theme among Democrats calling the debate over.
* The science of climate change is not settled.
* Every Minnesotan should be outraged by this. Deciding who should be teachers, not on how well they teach, but how well they adopt leftist principles.
* Peer-reviewed studies. Some are saying that if their is fraud in the climate change research, peer-reviewed research will expose it. Except that, in this case, from the leaked emails, it was clear the peer-review process had been manipulated by them.
What Health Care Problem?
* Notice a couple things with this article. First, the article talks about the Senate approving "free" mammograms for women. Does that mean that it now doesn't cost anything? Of course not. Insurance companies will have to raise rates on other procedures. Do it enough, and you will see fewer and fewer insurance companies in business. Second, last week didn't we hear HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius downplay the mammogram at age 50? Now we see the Senate using that as a hammer to try to enforce policy. Imagine what will happen when we are all in the government plan.
Global Warming Hoax
* A defense of the incandescent light bulb, also possibly exposing some myths about claims made regarding the compact fluorescent.
* Remember all the ethanol that Congress mandated on gasoline refiners? Turns out, it won't be used. As the authors point out, if they could get that wrong, how easy would it be for them to get something big wrong on health care? Or any subject? Note the underlying problem here. When not in a free market, special interests win out, not what is in the best interest of the country or the people. Not to worry though. When more cars fail because of this, government will step in to prop up a "failing business model".
* The IPCC head, on one hand saying the leaked emails will do no harm, and on the other saying we need to tax unsustainable lifestyles. A truer tyrant one cannot find. Except perhaps Al Gore.
* Take into account the previous article about the climate debate not being over, and then witness more and more hysteria about how many people will die due to it. According to climate scientists, is there any disaster that cannot be contributed to climate change?
Can't Win a War This Way
* Navy SEALS, putting their lives on the line, being charged for punching a terrorist in the face. We have decided we will NOT pull out all stops when waging this war while the enemy uses our own system against us.
A Bit of Humor
* Wow. Environmentalists pound nails into trees to prevent a little logging (possibly), resulting in all of the trees being cut down for safety concerns.
MUST READ
* Henry Waxman saying that government will need to help shape US media. This should worry everyone out there. The talk right now is just about bailing out newspapers, but when have you known government to stop at anything, especially the federal government? I know Waxman knows about the new media emerging on the internet, and people like him just simply don't like it.
* Howard Dean declares the debate between capitalism and socialism is over. Seems to be a common theme among Democrats calling the debate over.
* The science of climate change is not settled.
* Every Minnesotan should be outraged by this. Deciding who should be teachers, not on how well they teach, but how well they adopt leftist principles.
* Peer-reviewed studies. Some are saying that if their is fraud in the climate change research, peer-reviewed research will expose it. Except that, in this case, from the leaked emails, it was clear the peer-review process had been manipulated by them.
What Health Care Problem?
* Notice a couple things with this article. First, the article talks about the Senate approving "free" mammograms for women. Does that mean that it now doesn't cost anything? Of course not. Insurance companies will have to raise rates on other procedures. Do it enough, and you will see fewer and fewer insurance companies in business. Second, last week didn't we hear HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius downplay the mammogram at age 50? Now we see the Senate using that as a hammer to try to enforce policy. Imagine what will happen when we are all in the government plan.
Global Warming Hoax
* A defense of the incandescent light bulb, also possibly exposing some myths about claims made regarding the compact fluorescent.
* Remember all the ethanol that Congress mandated on gasoline refiners? Turns out, it won't be used. As the authors point out, if they could get that wrong, how easy would it be for them to get something big wrong on health care? Or any subject? Note the underlying problem here. When not in a free market, special interests win out, not what is in the best interest of the country or the people. Not to worry though. When more cars fail because of this, government will step in to prop up a "failing business model".
* The IPCC head, on one hand saying the leaked emails will do no harm, and on the other saying we need to tax unsustainable lifestyles. A truer tyrant one cannot find. Except perhaps Al Gore.
* Take into account the previous article about the climate debate not being over, and then witness more and more hysteria about how many people will die due to it. According to climate scientists, is there any disaster that cannot be contributed to climate change?
Can't Win a War This Way
* Navy SEALS, putting their lives on the line, being charged for punching a terrorist in the face. We have decided we will NOT pull out all stops when waging this war while the enemy uses our own system against us.
A Bit of Humor
* Wow. Environmentalists pound nails into trees to prevent a little logging (possibly), resulting in all of the trees being cut down for safety concerns.
Monday, November 30, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
A short week this week as I was in Minnesota and South Dakota for Thanksgiving. To all those we saw, it was very nice seeing you and we had a great time.
The big news this past week was revelations about some main scientists in the IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), who have been fanning the flames of climate change alarmism, found to try to silence skeptics, possibly hide data despite requests about freedom of information, and even possibly falsifying data. As more details develop I will be glad to post them. The reaction to these has been typical. The media is ignoring it or arguing that those who leaked it should be punished (how about revelations about the SWIFT program), the UN and other IPCC members are trying to say this isn't indicative of the entire IPCC, and the administration continues to insist on the consensus and the science is pure. I thought these were scientists above reproach, the purest of the pure, and so on. Obviously not.
Of course I don't think science is all that pure. There are probably quite a few groups that are either funded by the government, funded by companies that have a vested interest in the outcome, or simple advocacy groups that appear decidedly anti-capitalist (Center for Science in the Public Interest).
* A summary of some of the leaked emails. At the end of the article is a mention of An Elegant Chaos, which I highly recommend.
* A discussion of deleting emails rather than allowing them to be seen through freedom of information request.
* A major building block in the theory questioned, and the response is decidely anti-science, at least from what we've been led to believe about the purity of GW scientists.
* Still more. In this case, hiding that the next 10 years or so will continue to remain cool, despite their claims. If they couldn't predict current trends, how can we trust them to predict future trends?
* Typical media response. Punish the whistleblower. While I can see some merit to the argument, not only were the media happy about publishing other private things - Palin emails, Pentagon Papers, and SWIFT, but they have been seriously derelict in publishing or making known any criticisms of global warming.
* More exposure.
Silly Liberals
* ACORN also dumping documents.
*Seven big lies about the stimulus.
* Obama's unprecedented use of the word "unprecedented".
The big news this past week was revelations about some main scientists in the IPCC (United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), who have been fanning the flames of climate change alarmism, found to try to silence skeptics, possibly hide data despite requests about freedom of information, and even possibly falsifying data. As more details develop I will be glad to post them. The reaction to these has been typical. The media is ignoring it or arguing that those who leaked it should be punished (how about revelations about the SWIFT program), the UN and other IPCC members are trying to say this isn't indicative of the entire IPCC, and the administration continues to insist on the consensus and the science is pure. I thought these were scientists above reproach, the purest of the pure, and so on. Obviously not.
Of course I don't think science is all that pure. There are probably quite a few groups that are either funded by the government, funded by companies that have a vested interest in the outcome, or simple advocacy groups that appear decidedly anti-capitalist (Center for Science in the Public Interest).
* A summary of some of the leaked emails. At the end of the article is a mention of An Elegant Chaos, which I highly recommend.
* A discussion of deleting emails rather than allowing them to be seen through freedom of information request.
* A major building block in the theory questioned, and the response is decidely anti-science, at least from what we've been led to believe about the purity of GW scientists.
* Still more. In this case, hiding that the next 10 years or so will continue to remain cool, despite their claims. If they couldn't predict current trends, how can we trust them to predict future trends?
* Typical media response. Punish the whistleblower. While I can see some merit to the argument, not only were the media happy about publishing other private things - Palin emails, Pentagon Papers, and SWIFT, but they have been seriously derelict in publishing or making known any criticisms of global warming.
* More exposure.
Silly Liberals
* ACORN also dumping documents.
*Seven big lies about the stimulus.
* Obama's unprecedented use of the word "unprecedented".
Sunday, November 22, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
As far as weeks go in the Obama administration, this one didn't seem all that exciting. I actually kind of miss the boring weeks of the Bush administration. Oh well.
For news this week the big one was Sarah Palin's book coming out. As usual, the media had a frenzy. I don't know what it is, but I swear liberals hate Palin even more than Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and George W. Bush put together. Even more funny was the AP assigning 11 reporters to fact-check her book. Where were the fact checkers checking out Obama during his candidacy? The Wall Street Journal had a good comparison.
"An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism."
Right now Palin can't force anyone to do anything (Obama can). As usual, some in the media are saying she is irrelevant while others are saying she has some sort of supernatural power.
A few samples:
* Norah O' Donnell fact-checks a Palin fan (a young one at that). Perhaps someone should tell Norah that the Vice Presidential candidate during the campaign is supposed to agree with the Presidential candidate, even if they don't, presumably to reinforce unity.
* Former editor of the Chicago Tribune suffers from PDS.
* It is obvious how much they hate Palin and her followers, but notice also that it is liberals who are constantly focused on race.
* And of course, the cover of Newsweek showing Sarah Palin in shorts. Anything to destroy her.
Wow. No one gets under their skin as much as Palin does.
Some short observations:
* Recently Obama held a job summit, the express purpose of it being NOT about creating jobs. What is it about then? Again, how many summits does this President need?
* Price controls on Medicare...how is that not the same thing as cutting reimbursements to doctors? They get about 20-25% reimbursement right now. Presumably inflation will occur so that price control means they are getting something like 15% instead since the price has gone up but they can't charge more.
MUST READ
* McCarthy is right. The decision to bring KSM and other terrorists to civilian court is one of the most irresponsible ever decided by a President.
* I would normally say unbelievable, but on second thought I can see Obama bowing to other world leaders.
* The AP finds errors in Palin's book, that...well...aren't errors.
* In the author's own words, the KSM trial will be an intelligence bonanza for Al Qaeda.
* The new liberal talking point is that Moussaoui trial was in civilian court and that no one complained. Andy McCarthy quickly debunks that and points out that there are some judges who will side with the enemy.
Silly Liberals
* A great article on Obama hating America. Always willing to give people a chance (hoping Obama really wasn't as radical as he seemed), but you reach a certain point where when all other explanations fall apart, the one that is left must be the truth.
* The only time Obama will take blame is...wait, never mind. This time human error blamed for stimulus jobs created in nonexistent districts.
* AG Eric Holder talks about delays in the trials for terrorists. Only problem, it was friends of Holder's that were causing the delays.
* According to Jesse Jackson, you can't be a black man and not support health care reform. Obama's version at least.
* Why is the SEIU president Obama's most frequent visitor?
Health Care
* The claim was made that 50% of all bankruptcies result from a medical condition. This article helps debunk that.
What Climate Change?
* In the latest story to support how global warming is a farce, now it is being claimed climate change pushes women into prostitution.
For news this week the big one was Sarah Palin's book coming out. As usual, the media had a frenzy. I don't know what it is, but I swear liberals hate Palin even more than Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and George W. Bush put together. Even more funny was the AP assigning 11 reporters to fact-check her book. Where were the fact checkers checking out Obama during his candidacy? The Wall Street Journal had a good comparison.
"An Associated Press dispatch, written by Erica Werner and Richard Alonso-Zaldivar, compares the House and Senate ObamaCare bills. We'd like to compare this dispatch to the AP's dispatch earlier this week "fact checking" Sarah Palin's new book. Here goes:
Number of AP reporters assigned to story:
• ObamaCare bills: 2
• Palin book: 11
Number of pages in document being covered:
• ObamaCare bills: 4,064
• Palin book: 432
Number of pages per AP reporter:
• ObamaCare bill: 2,032
• Palin book: 39.3
On a per-page basis, that is, the AP devoted 52 times as much manpower to the memoir of a former Republican officeholder as to a piece of legislation that will cost trillions of dollars and an untold number of lives. That's what they call accountability journalism."
Right now Palin can't force anyone to do anything (Obama can). As usual, some in the media are saying she is irrelevant while others are saying she has some sort of supernatural power.
A few samples:
* Norah O' Donnell fact-checks a Palin fan (a young one at that). Perhaps someone should tell Norah that the Vice Presidential candidate during the campaign is supposed to agree with the Presidential candidate, even if they don't, presumably to reinforce unity.
* Former editor of the Chicago Tribune suffers from PDS.
* It is obvious how much they hate Palin and her followers, but notice also that it is liberals who are constantly focused on race.
* And of course, the cover of Newsweek showing Sarah Palin in shorts. Anything to destroy her.
Wow. No one gets under their skin as much as Palin does.
Some short observations:
* Recently Obama held a job summit, the express purpose of it being NOT about creating jobs. What is it about then? Again, how many summits does this President need?
* Price controls on Medicare...how is that not the same thing as cutting reimbursements to doctors? They get about 20-25% reimbursement right now. Presumably inflation will occur so that price control means they are getting something like 15% instead since the price has gone up but they can't charge more.
MUST READ
* McCarthy is right. The decision to bring KSM and other terrorists to civilian court is one of the most irresponsible ever decided by a President.
* I would normally say unbelievable, but on second thought I can see Obama bowing to other world leaders.
* The AP finds errors in Palin's book, that...well...aren't errors.
* In the author's own words, the KSM trial will be an intelligence bonanza for Al Qaeda.
* The new liberal talking point is that Moussaoui trial was in civilian court and that no one complained. Andy McCarthy quickly debunks that and points out that there are some judges who will side with the enemy.
Silly Liberals
* A great article on Obama hating America. Always willing to give people a chance (hoping Obama really wasn't as radical as he seemed), but you reach a certain point where when all other explanations fall apart, the one that is left must be the truth.
* The only time Obama will take blame is...wait, never mind. This time human error blamed for stimulus jobs created in nonexistent districts.
* AG Eric Holder talks about delays in the trials for terrorists. Only problem, it was friends of Holder's that were causing the delays.
* According to Jesse Jackson, you can't be a black man and not support health care reform. Obama's version at least.
* Why is the SEIU president Obama's most frequent visitor?
Health Care
* The claim was made that 50% of all bankruptcies result from a medical condition. This article helps debunk that.
What Climate Change?
* In the latest story to support how global warming is a farce, now it is being claimed climate change pushes women into prostitution.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Another frustrating week from the Obama administration. The latest outrage is to try the 9-11 terrorists in a civilian court. Yes, trying foreigners who waged war on us as civilians. Meaning a whole host of problems, among them the questions of taxpayer defense, those defense attorneys who will be expected to try to obtain every legal benefit to the accused (though many defense attorneys don't seem to mind representing foreigners who kill Americans), the judge and prosecutor will be known and likely threatened (as Michael Mukasey, the judge in the Blind Sheik trial, was), and the fact that foreigners shouldn't even get a trial in the US civilian courts.
The second remarkable thing this week was the response to Nadal Hisan's murder of 13 Army personnel. The only rush to judgement was on the part of the media. They claimed it was post-traumatic stress disorder, though Hasan had never been deployed. Then it was stress from hearing about stories from soldiers who had been deployed, though surprisingly no other Army psychiatrists seem to suffer from it, nor did doctors or nurses who worked on injured Army personnel. Then were the revelations of speeches Hasan had made as well as shouting Allahu Ahkbar before shooting. It was clear that it was Islam related. Of course, the typical administration response (though I don't doubt the reaction would have been similar if it were Bush) was to stick its head in the sand and ask the American people to not jump to conclusions. Makes me wonder again if it were an abortion clinic bombing, would Obama hesitate to jump to conclusions? Of course not. How about if a black man is arrested by a white cop as in the case of Henry Louis Gates? Obama didn't seem to mind rushing to judgement there either. Regardless, much of the American public seems to feel fine sticking its head in the sand. I don't deny the existence of peaceful Muslims, but I wonder why they never speak out if people are hijacking Islam's peaceful name. If people claim to be Christians and bomb abortion clinics, actual Christians are denouncing them right away (though I doubt they get the same benefit of the doubt Muslims do).
Ann Coulter had a great point about the massacre at Fort Hood. They are making Hasan out to be a victim, whether it is from PTSD or harassment (from an off-base incident where Hasan's car was keyed). Not that the media does it just for Muslims. For any killer they are likely to blame everything on something the killer has little or no control over (stress, poor economic conditions, etc.)
MUST READ
* Political correctness is literally killing us.
* Is it possible to pay down debt with more borrowing? Obama thinks so. Which is not surprising. The same such formula was used by Clinton to claim a surplus (not that he is the only one, but the only time we came close to a surplus recently was then). Here is the article to that. I strongly recommend the followup article as well.
* Expect eventually to be given a carbon allowance as they might do in Britain. Think it can't happen here?
* At least we had a somewhat lame excuse before September 11. There is no excuse now.
What Media Bias?
* The media worried about a backlash against Muslims. Can someone remind me of a single incident of backlash against Muslims?
* Why is it always during Republican administrations good economic news is unexpected and during a Democratic administration bad economic news is always expected?
Political Correctness
* The military missed a lot of signs regarding Hasan. Whether that is willful blindness or reaction to both the Bush and Obama administrations remains to be seen (I tend towards the latter view).
* Terrorists have been at war with us a long time.
Silly Liberals
* A great video about how the health care bill, if passed, will be a budget buster. Pelosi claims somehow it will reduce the deficit (of course if you believe the government line that borrowing to cover previous borrowing doesn't add to the deficit).
Very funny, ACORN charges that stripping federal funds from them amounts to a bill of attainder. Under the logic ACORN is trying to use, any reduction of federal funds for any amount amounts to a bill of attainder. This should be a pretty easy call.
The second remarkable thing this week was the response to Nadal Hisan's murder of 13 Army personnel. The only rush to judgement was on the part of the media. They claimed it was post-traumatic stress disorder, though Hasan had never been deployed. Then it was stress from hearing about stories from soldiers who had been deployed, though surprisingly no other Army psychiatrists seem to suffer from it, nor did doctors or nurses who worked on injured Army personnel. Then were the revelations of speeches Hasan had made as well as shouting Allahu Ahkbar before shooting. It was clear that it was Islam related. Of course, the typical administration response (though I don't doubt the reaction would have been similar if it were Bush) was to stick its head in the sand and ask the American people to not jump to conclusions. Makes me wonder again if it were an abortion clinic bombing, would Obama hesitate to jump to conclusions? Of course not. How about if a black man is arrested by a white cop as in the case of Henry Louis Gates? Obama didn't seem to mind rushing to judgement there either. Regardless, much of the American public seems to feel fine sticking its head in the sand. I don't deny the existence of peaceful Muslims, but I wonder why they never speak out if people are hijacking Islam's peaceful name. If people claim to be Christians and bomb abortion clinics, actual Christians are denouncing them right away (though I doubt they get the same benefit of the doubt Muslims do).
Ann Coulter had a great point about the massacre at Fort Hood. They are making Hasan out to be a victim, whether it is from PTSD or harassment (from an off-base incident where Hasan's car was keyed). Not that the media does it just for Muslims. For any killer they are likely to blame everything on something the killer has little or no control over (stress, poor economic conditions, etc.)
MUST READ
* Political correctness is literally killing us.
* Is it possible to pay down debt with more borrowing? Obama thinks so. Which is not surprising. The same such formula was used by Clinton to claim a surplus (not that he is the only one, but the only time we came close to a surplus recently was then). Here is the article to that. I strongly recommend the followup article as well.
* Expect eventually to be given a carbon allowance as they might do in Britain. Think it can't happen here?
* At least we had a somewhat lame excuse before September 11. There is no excuse now.
What Media Bias?
* The media worried about a backlash against Muslims. Can someone remind me of a single incident of backlash against Muslims?
* Why is it always during Republican administrations good economic news is unexpected and during a Democratic administration bad economic news is always expected?
Political Correctness
* The military missed a lot of signs regarding Hasan. Whether that is willful blindness or reaction to both the Bush and Obama administrations remains to be seen (I tend towards the latter view).
* Terrorists have been at war with us a long time.
Silly Liberals
* A great video about how the health care bill, if passed, will be a budget buster. Pelosi claims somehow it will reduce the deficit (of course if you believe the government line that borrowing to cover previous borrowing doesn't add to the deficit).
Very funny, ACORN charges that stripping federal funds from them amounts to a bill of attainder. Under the logic ACORN is trying to use, any reduction of federal funds for any amount amounts to a bill of attainder. This should be a pretty easy call.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
I don't know if many of you have heard or read Mark Steyn much, but he is a great commentator. Probably the most popular columnist if you take into account Europe, Canada, and Australia. He made a couple great points in the last week or so. Anyways, the first comment was a joke that Obama has appointed former President Bush to be his new blame czar. Second was the comment that so many on the left and among our media seem to be more interested in hypothetical anti-Muslim backlash than they are about actual Muslim violence. Which is true. Even though it is Muslims who perpetrate most of the attacks against the U.S., Americans have shown incredible restraint compared to what a lot of other countries would put up with. Yet the left in our country show more concern about hypothetical anti-Muslim backlash that never materializes.
MUST READ
* We learn nothing from past failures. Did you know less than a year after the 1929 stock market crash the economy was back at the level it was pre-crash? I didn't know that. Some more lessons.
* As Ann Coulter once pointed out, being a conservative means the world confirms your beliefs at every turn. It is liberals who are always shocked that something we would deem as common sense happened. In this case, finding out Bush era leaks actually were dangerous after all.
* Pelosi's health care bill is a bad bill. Too bad it passed the House, on a super secret Saturday session. Also, it will only create 111 new bureaucracies. Ah, but when it all fails we can blame the sliver of the free market that will be left.
Silly Liberals
* Hillary Clinton saying in the United States we tax everything that moves and doesn't move. Not that I am surprised, just always glad to hear liberals express support for what they really believe.
* Seriously what is Obama's obsession with constantly blaming Bush?
* Remember this when liberals talk about illegal immigration. It is all about getting more voters and solidifying power.
Simple Economics
* The original article I link to expressed how any existing homes would have to pass efficiency standards, meaning huge costs for any existing homeowners. A couple points though. If you believe factcheck.org (I'm not convinced they are nonpartisan as they claim), it is only new homes and commercial buildings. But isn't cap and trade all about regulating anything and everything that uses energy? Second point is if you believe the Republican staffer, it is entirely plausible Democrats would have introduced it that way (again, it is about control). So you know sooner or later it would be coming anyways.
What Big Green?
* For years environmentalists have attacked and continue to attack big business and suggested they can't be trusted because they stand to benefit. Now it turns out Al Gore may be one of the biggest beneficiaries.
MUST READ
* We learn nothing from past failures. Did you know less than a year after the 1929 stock market crash the economy was back at the level it was pre-crash? I didn't know that. Some more lessons.
* As Ann Coulter once pointed out, being a conservative means the world confirms your beliefs at every turn. It is liberals who are always shocked that something we would deem as common sense happened. In this case, finding out Bush era leaks actually were dangerous after all.
* Pelosi's health care bill is a bad bill. Too bad it passed the House, on a super secret Saturday session. Also, it will only create 111 new bureaucracies. Ah, but when it all fails we can blame the sliver of the free market that will be left.
Silly Liberals
* Hillary Clinton saying in the United States we tax everything that moves and doesn't move. Not that I am surprised, just always glad to hear liberals express support for what they really believe.
* Seriously what is Obama's obsession with constantly blaming Bush?
* Remember this when liberals talk about illegal immigration. It is all about getting more voters and solidifying power.
Simple Economics
* The original article I link to expressed how any existing homes would have to pass efficiency standards, meaning huge costs for any existing homeowners. A couple points though. If you believe factcheck.org (I'm not convinced they are nonpartisan as they claim), it is only new homes and commercial buildings. But isn't cap and trade all about regulating anything and everything that uses energy? Second point is if you believe the Republican staffer, it is entirely plausible Democrats would have introduced it that way (again, it is about control). So you know sooner or later it would be coming anyways.
What Big Green?
* For years environmentalists have attacked and continue to attack big business and suggested they can't be trusted because they stand to benefit. Now it turns out Al Gore may be one of the biggest beneficiaries.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Wow, so much this week it is going to be hard to limit all of it. First a few pieces of commentary...
The big push on health care has always been about the 47 million uninsured. Instead of upsetting the health insurance system that most people are happy with (according to all the polls I have heard), why not just reform Medicare to cover them? I don't even buy the notion that the system is broken. You have people like Obama and Pelosi continually saying our system is broken, so many believe it despite most people being happy with the coverage they get. It is the same thing when Bush was President. The media kept pounding the drumbeat that we were in a recession, even before we were in the recession. Polls said people were doing fine but they weren't so sure about their neighbors...after all, the media was running sob story after sob story. Ultimately, of course, we know government intervention does not work. After Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drug, SCHIP, state programs, etc., we still have millions who don't have coverage. So what makes anyone think it will somehow be better with more government intervention?
Miscellaneous
1. Pelosi is now calling the public option the competitive option or the consumer option...why not just call it the sunshine option, or the puppies option? It would be just as deceptive.
2. Democrats claim the health care bill will contain an opt-out option. But not in the sense any normal person would think of it. States could opt out of receiving benefits, but their citizens would still have to pay for it through taxes. This is always the Democrat sleight-of-hand. Claim their is a choice even if realistically it means everyone would choose one option because of circumstances. It is the same thing with the Post Office. Companies can compete with the Post Office but only if they service the entire country. Who could do that right off the bat? Even UPS and Fedex could not do it overnight. So Democrats can claim the Post Office is not immune from competition even though practically no one can compete.
Finally, from the Wall Street Journal, the title "A Sign of Racial Progress".
"Politico's Josh Gerstein raises the question: Why hasn't there been more commentary along the lines of our lead item today? (We're paraphrasing.) He raises the obvious explanation, media bias, then offers some further speculation:
Others say there's a larger phenomenon at work--in the story line the media wrote about Obama's presidency. For Bush, the theme was that of a Big Business Republican who rode the family name to the White House, so stories about secret energy meetings and a certain laziness, intellectual and otherwise, fit neatly into the theme, to be replayed over and over again. Obama's story line was more positive from the start: historic newcomer coming to shake up Washington. So the negatives that sprung up around Obama--like a sense that he was more flash than substance--track what negative coverage he's received, captured in a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit that made fun of his lack of accomplishments in office. 'There may well be almost an unconscious effort on the part of the media to give Obama a bit more slack because he is more likable, because he is the first African-American president. That plays into it,' said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California.
Is Jeffe allowed to say that some people in the media are hoping Obama succeeds because he's black? Six years ago, a similar comment about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb cost Rush Limbaugh his job as an NFL commentator. That such statements are no longer verboten is a sign of racial progress in Obama's America."
MUST READ
* The new health care bill is a massive 1990 pages. Any guess Democrats will try to ram it down our throats before we find out what is really in the bill?
* Remember the Honduran dictator Obama supported a couple months back? It turns out conservatives were right, that the Honduran president was rightly removed from power. Now, however, Senator John Kerry is trying to cover up a report showing Honduras was acting legally in removing the ex-President.
* Another example of government efficiency. Such a deal, that Cash for Clunkers only cost about $24,000 per car.
* Dismantling the 46/47 million myth.
* Great article by David Limbaugh. Democrats have been coddled by the media for so long now that they simply cannot tolerate dissent.
* Must watch, Reagan's speech 45 years ago this week. Nearly all of it, if not all of it, rings just as true today.
* Top Democratic donors getting exclusive access to the White House. I thought Obama was going to change all of that.
Economic Ignorance
* Most people would be inclined to think this a bad thing. After all, why should you get punished for being a good customer? Until you realize, all businesses are forced to charge higher prices because of bad customers. Some customers will have insufficient funds and never pay their bill, sometimes you take customers to court, theft, etc. All that costs money, and it is borne by good customers.
Democrat Deception
* Stimulus jobs created or saved were overstated by thousands. Why not just claim credit for the millions who have kept their jobs through the recession?
* Obama still suffers from Bush Derangement Syndrome. For some reason he cannot refrain from attacking Bush when he is being defensive about himself.
What Media Bias?
* When they do something well, we should applaud them, and I do. This time raising questions about the government's ability to manage a health care bureaucracy.
What Science
* As Ann Coulter would say, don't dare question evolution, despite mounting evidence against it. Case in point.
Think it can't happen here?
* Police in the UK are told what words they can and cannot use, among them "evening" and "afternoon". How Orwellian.
* More bad news from Britain. Databases of protestors who have attended rallies.
The big push on health care has always been about the 47 million uninsured. Instead of upsetting the health insurance system that most people are happy with (according to all the polls I have heard), why not just reform Medicare to cover them? I don't even buy the notion that the system is broken. You have people like Obama and Pelosi continually saying our system is broken, so many believe it despite most people being happy with the coverage they get. It is the same thing when Bush was President. The media kept pounding the drumbeat that we were in a recession, even before we were in the recession. Polls said people were doing fine but they weren't so sure about their neighbors...after all, the media was running sob story after sob story. Ultimately, of course, we know government intervention does not work. After Medicare, Medicaid, prescription drug, SCHIP, state programs, etc., we still have millions who don't have coverage. So what makes anyone think it will somehow be better with more government intervention?
Miscellaneous
1. Pelosi is now calling the public option the competitive option or the consumer option...why not just call it the sunshine option, or the puppies option? It would be just as deceptive.
2. Democrats claim the health care bill will contain an opt-out option. But not in the sense any normal person would think of it. States could opt out of receiving benefits, but their citizens would still have to pay for it through taxes. This is always the Democrat sleight-of-hand. Claim their is a choice even if realistically it means everyone would choose one option because of circumstances. It is the same thing with the Post Office. Companies can compete with the Post Office but only if they service the entire country. Who could do that right off the bat? Even UPS and Fedex could not do it overnight. So Democrats can claim the Post Office is not immune from competition even though practically no one can compete.
Finally, from the Wall Street Journal, the title "A Sign of Racial Progress".
"Politico's Josh Gerstein raises the question: Why hasn't there been more commentary along the lines of our lead item today? (We're paraphrasing.) He raises the obvious explanation, media bias, then offers some further speculation:
Others say there's a larger phenomenon at work--in the story line the media wrote about Obama's presidency. For Bush, the theme was that of a Big Business Republican who rode the family name to the White House, so stories about secret energy meetings and a certain laziness, intellectual and otherwise, fit neatly into the theme, to be replayed over and over again. Obama's story line was more positive from the start: historic newcomer coming to shake up Washington. So the negatives that sprung up around Obama--like a sense that he was more flash than substance--track what negative coverage he's received, captured in a recent "Saturday Night Live" skit that made fun of his lack of accomplishments in office. 'There may well be almost an unconscious effort on the part of the media to give Obama a bit more slack because he is more likable, because he is the first African-American president. That plays into it,' said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a political analyst at the University of Southern California.
Is Jeffe allowed to say that some people in the media are hoping Obama succeeds because he's black? Six years ago, a similar comment about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb cost Rush Limbaugh his job as an NFL commentator. That such statements are no longer verboten is a sign of racial progress in Obama's America."
MUST READ
* The new health care bill is a massive 1990 pages. Any guess Democrats will try to ram it down our throats before we find out what is really in the bill?
* Remember the Honduran dictator Obama supported a couple months back? It turns out conservatives were right, that the Honduran president was rightly removed from power. Now, however, Senator John Kerry is trying to cover up a report showing Honduras was acting legally in removing the ex-President.
* Another example of government efficiency. Such a deal, that Cash for Clunkers only cost about $24,000 per car.
* Dismantling the 46/47 million myth.
* Great article by David Limbaugh. Democrats have been coddled by the media for so long now that they simply cannot tolerate dissent.
* Must watch, Reagan's speech 45 years ago this week. Nearly all of it, if not all of it, rings just as true today.
* Top Democratic donors getting exclusive access to the White House. I thought Obama was going to change all of that.
Economic Ignorance
* Most people would be inclined to think this a bad thing. After all, why should you get punished for being a good customer? Until you realize, all businesses are forced to charge higher prices because of bad customers. Some customers will have insufficient funds and never pay their bill, sometimes you take customers to court, theft, etc. All that costs money, and it is borne by good customers.
Democrat Deception
* Stimulus jobs created or saved were overstated by thousands. Why not just claim credit for the millions who have kept their jobs through the recession?
* Obama still suffers from Bush Derangement Syndrome. For some reason he cannot refrain from attacking Bush when he is being defensive about himself.
What Media Bias?
* When they do something well, we should applaud them, and I do. This time raising questions about the government's ability to manage a health care bureaucracy.
What Science
* As Ann Coulter would say, don't dare question evolution, despite mounting evidence against it. Case in point.
Think it can't happen here?
* Police in the UK are told what words they can and cannot use, among them "evening" and "afternoon". How Orwellian.
* More bad news from Britain. Databases of protestors who have attended rallies.
Monday, October 26, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
I was in MN this weekend so I haven't had much time to put this together, so I apologize for that.
Who is the real culprit with states going bankrupt? Though they do deserve some blame, much of it can be laid at the federal government. States have been allowed to be lax in spending and allowed to be fiscally irresponsible. Anytime they need extra funds, the federal government will give it to them. In many cases, the federal government will try to "split" costs with the state, further allowing it to have access to funds it never would if it had to raise it all itself. Then when the federal government doesn't deliver or is out of funds, well the states still have liabilities. If you couple that along with the federal government continually taking power from the states, the federal government can essentially bully the states. You want money for this project or that project? Better play ball.
MUST READ/WATCH
* Another radical in Obama's administration. This time it is Anita Dunn, expressing her favorite philosopher, Mao Tse Tung. The revolution is only responsible for the death of tens of millions, more than Stalin or Hitler.
* How come the media is silent when the President himself basically has an enemies' list? Fox News, talk radio, doctors, insurance companies, oil companies, Tea Party protestors, etc.
* Why can't Obama make a simple decision in Afghanistan? Choices have to be made. Obama seems to find himself in the awkward position of Afghanistan being a distraction from his domestic policy agenda when all last year during the campaign he said Iraq was a distraction from Afghanistan.
* Simple economics. Fixing prices does not reduce costs.
* Freedom works.
Big Green
* So laughable. The government can't even get the Energy Star label right for appliances and light bulbs. But yet they are going to be able to effectively manage a massive carbon emission scheme? Give me a break.
* The media are always eager to report stories favorable to liberals...not so much with conservatives (i.e. many still haven't retracted the made-up Limbaugh comments). In this instance, falling for a hoax about the Chamber of Commerce switching positions and endorsing cap and trade. Had the situation been reversed would we have heard about it?
Silly Liberals
* Thug tactics in full view. I thought there was going to be a new brand of politics when Democrats took over...
* Racism is a big business. We all know this, but Jackson and Sharpton make millions off it.
* I thought Democrats really cared about blacks. Nope, they apparently think blacks are too stupid to make their own choices.
* No surprise here, but a watchdog saying voters will not be repaid for the bailout money they shelled out. I don't want to sound conspiratorial, but much of the money has seemed to go to things that increase Democrat power.
Who is the real culprit with states going bankrupt? Though they do deserve some blame, much of it can be laid at the federal government. States have been allowed to be lax in spending and allowed to be fiscally irresponsible. Anytime they need extra funds, the federal government will give it to them. In many cases, the federal government will try to "split" costs with the state, further allowing it to have access to funds it never would if it had to raise it all itself. Then when the federal government doesn't deliver or is out of funds, well the states still have liabilities. If you couple that along with the federal government continually taking power from the states, the federal government can essentially bully the states. You want money for this project or that project? Better play ball.
MUST READ/WATCH
* Another radical in Obama's administration. This time it is Anita Dunn, expressing her favorite philosopher, Mao Tse Tung. The revolution is only responsible for the death of tens of millions, more than Stalin or Hitler.
* How come the media is silent when the President himself basically has an enemies' list? Fox News, talk radio, doctors, insurance companies, oil companies, Tea Party protestors, etc.
* Why can't Obama make a simple decision in Afghanistan? Choices have to be made. Obama seems to find himself in the awkward position of Afghanistan being a distraction from his domestic policy agenda when all last year during the campaign he said Iraq was a distraction from Afghanistan.
* Simple economics. Fixing prices does not reduce costs.
* Freedom works.
Big Green
* So laughable. The government can't even get the Energy Star label right for appliances and light bulbs. But yet they are going to be able to effectively manage a massive carbon emission scheme? Give me a break.
* The media are always eager to report stories favorable to liberals...not so much with conservatives (i.e. many still haven't retracted the made-up Limbaugh comments). In this instance, falling for a hoax about the Chamber of Commerce switching positions and endorsing cap and trade. Had the situation been reversed would we have heard about it?
Silly Liberals
* Thug tactics in full view. I thought there was going to be a new brand of politics when Democrats took over...
* Racism is a big business. We all know this, but Jackson and Sharpton make millions off it.
* I thought Democrats really cared about blacks. Nope, they apparently think blacks are too stupid to make their own choices.
* No surprise here, but a watchdog saying voters will not be repaid for the bailout money they shelled out. I don't want to sound conspiratorial, but much of the money has seemed to go to things that increase Democrat power.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Sorry, no time for more in-depth comments, but hope this is okay...
A couple interesting observations:
1. Climate change - always used 20-30 years to justify it, but the last 10 years have been stable. It has always been farcical to look at that short a time period and use it to justify either conclusion.
2. The major lesson to learn from Rush trying to buy the St. Louis Rams is you better hope to God if you want to do something when Democrats take over health care you better hope you never contributed to Republicans.
3. If doctors allowed someone to die, it is against the law. That doctor would be fired and tried in a court of law. Yet many of the same people who would condemn him have nothing but praise for government officials who let people die in Canada and Great Britain.
4. To Democrats, Americans and American businesses are are the enemy.
5. If banks pushed people to buy homes without reading paperwork, wouldn't Democrats be arguing they should be put in jail? Yet Democrats are doing the same thing with all the bills they are passing. Voting on bills without a bill even existing, not letting those affected read the bill before they sign off, and so on.
MUST WATCH
The videos here and here are two great videos of Rush in person.
MUST READ
* Former Clinton Labor Secretary, says what an honest President would say about Democrat plans...we're going to let you die.
* Time and time again, we were told how Afghanistan was the good war and Iraq the bad war. Now the Obama administration doesn't seem that determined to even fight Afghanistan. I don't think Democrats were ever really serious about Afghanistan. Once Iraq was out of the way, they would try to convince us Afghanistan wasn't really worth fighting anyways.
* Be warned that you will pay more for health care with any more government intrusion. Take solace in that in 10 years or so, Democrats will again ride to the rescue and blame greedy insurance companies and step in to "correct" things.
* It's no surprise to many on the right that Obama is governing radically. His personal life bore that out. But what if Obama had told everyone else what he planned to do?
* I still like the NFL. But apparently some divisive figures are more deserving of team ownership than others.
Basic Economics
* Politicians think declaring something a good thing has no effect on anything else in society. Case in point, the home mortgage crisis.
* The old value-added tax is being proposed. The worst part is that it won't be a replacement, but rather an additional tax levied.
Silly Liberals
* Democrats and the media keep insisting the Baucus bill will save 81 billion dollars. Which is funny, because there isn't even a bill. Why do they have to keep being dishonest about what they are going to do?
* Obama seems to think that all problems can be cured by redistribution of wealth, in thid case trying to buy off the Taliban.
* A good summary of the Limbaugh hit-job by the media.
What Climate Change?
* Do you really think proponents of climate change are actually interested in debate? Here a critic's microphone was cut off when he tried to ask Al Gore a few questions. Which I don't really blame Al Gore for, but Gore has continually tried to stifle debate on the issue as well as refuses to debate anything about his movie or climate change in general.
* Lord Monckton is right, it is climate change alarmists who are the real threat.
A couple interesting observations:
1. Climate change - always used 20-30 years to justify it, but the last 10 years have been stable. It has always been farcical to look at that short a time period and use it to justify either conclusion.
2. The major lesson to learn from Rush trying to buy the St. Louis Rams is you better hope to God if you want to do something when Democrats take over health care you better hope you never contributed to Republicans.
3. If doctors allowed someone to die, it is against the law. That doctor would be fired and tried in a court of law. Yet many of the same people who would condemn him have nothing but praise for government officials who let people die in Canada and Great Britain.
4. To Democrats, Americans and American businesses are are the enemy.
5. If banks pushed people to buy homes without reading paperwork, wouldn't Democrats be arguing they should be put in jail? Yet Democrats are doing the same thing with all the bills they are passing. Voting on bills without a bill even existing, not letting those affected read the bill before they sign off, and so on.
MUST WATCH
The videos here and here are two great videos of Rush in person.
MUST READ
* Former Clinton Labor Secretary, says what an honest President would say about Democrat plans...we're going to let you die.
* Time and time again, we were told how Afghanistan was the good war and Iraq the bad war. Now the Obama administration doesn't seem that determined to even fight Afghanistan. I don't think Democrats were ever really serious about Afghanistan. Once Iraq was out of the way, they would try to convince us Afghanistan wasn't really worth fighting anyways.
* Be warned that you will pay more for health care with any more government intrusion. Take solace in that in 10 years or so, Democrats will again ride to the rescue and blame greedy insurance companies and step in to "correct" things.
* It's no surprise to many on the right that Obama is governing radically. His personal life bore that out. But what if Obama had told everyone else what he planned to do?
* I still like the NFL. But apparently some divisive figures are more deserving of team ownership than others.
Basic Economics
* Politicians think declaring something a good thing has no effect on anything else in society. Case in point, the home mortgage crisis.
* The old value-added tax is being proposed. The worst part is that it won't be a replacement, but rather an additional tax levied.
Silly Liberals
* Democrats and the media keep insisting the Baucus bill will save 81 billion dollars. Which is funny, because there isn't even a bill. Why do they have to keep being dishonest about what they are going to do?
* Obama seems to think that all problems can be cured by redistribution of wealth, in thid case trying to buy off the Taliban.
* A good summary of the Limbaugh hit-job by the media.
What Climate Change?
* Do you really think proponents of climate change are actually interested in debate? Here a critic's microphone was cut off when he tried to ask Al Gore a few questions. Which I don't really blame Al Gore for, but Gore has continually tried to stifle debate on the issue as well as refuses to debate anything about his movie or climate change in general.
* Lord Monckton is right, it is climate change alarmists who are the real threat.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
An interesting tidbit from askheritage.org. Medicare denies 6.85% of all claims. This is more than twice any private insurer. So when some politician or liberal you know claims Medicare is great and a single payer system will work like Medicare, you can believe it. It's just that Medicare isn't all that great. Some might say that that is just because the government would get more false claims. If that is true, perhaps that is because people think they can get away with it more than a private insurer. But does a private company not get false or fraudulent claims? Of course not. But these insurers also have to get people to like what they are selling. Under a government plan, there will be no choice.
Breeding dependency. I am always amazed at how liberals continually enact policies that breed dependency and then express shock and outrage there is more dependency. For years liberals have effectively championed the replacement of the father in the family with government. Then be shocked when there are more single mothers. So surprise, you get more fathers leaving their families. They know taxpayers will take care of their family for them. But now we hear about the plight of single mothers and how we must appropriate more spending for them. To not do so, they tell us, is heartless. Well, without welfare, people would have to rely only on charity and it might not be enough. There's more incentive to stay together, to try to make things work, and so on.
The myth of green jobs. Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, who along with the legislature has destroyed Michigan's economy, is saying how she is going to create 40,000 jobs by 2020. I don't mind creating jobs (with liberals the buzzword is "creating" jobs, but strangely no mention if these are long term jobs), but she is talking about massive taxpayer subsidies (federal and state) and yet 40,000 jobs in 11 years works out to a little over 3600 jobs per year. Taking the $1 billion figure (the figure is likely higher), that works out to $25,000 per job. Not really a great deal considering that it will likely take more money and if it is a government job, you have to keep paying that person. But notice also that by the end of Granholm's term, the state is projected to lose 130,000 more jobs with no end in sight. Again, 40,000 is a drop in the bucket if you have bad policies.
I've written before about the injection of politics into sports. This is a great article for anyone that is interested.
MUST READ
* Fantastic article by Steve Forbes about wealth creation.
* I thought Afghanistan was a war liberals really wanted to win, and Iraq was just a distraction. Apparently not.
* So important are health care reforms that some Senators don't want to apply it to their states.
* Taxing the rich doesn't work out at all like expected.
What Propaganda...and Where is the Media?
* More kids singing to Obama, only this time on the set of CNN.
* Obama invites doctors to the White House, but the media neglects to mention the photo op was staged.
* With the Obamas, it is all about them.
* I definitely like the admission by Maxine Waters that many members would have tax disclosure problems. Would this be counted as evidence of a culture of corruption if it were Republicans...and where is the media?
* Can anyone else see how illegals are going to get health coverage? Also see this.
What Media Bias?
* Liberal TV host laments the incivility in politics, then literally shouts down a guest a day later.
* In what universe are rising unemployment rates good news?
Energy
* How taxes pervert our energy choices.
Miscellaneous
* A lot of black NFL players have said they wouldn't play for a Rush Limbaugh owned team. First to note that these players probably haven't listened to Limbaugh. Second, the media does have quite an effect. To sum up, Limbaugh thought the Eagles defense carried McNabb in his earlier days...up to debate but true in my opinion. He also said the media is desperate for a black QB to succeed. Which is undoubtedly true. Though blacks are statistically overrepresented in football in general, they are not in the QB position. Liberals think that the QB is a "smart" position, so if blacks are underrepresented there they think people will see them as dumb. It does take quite a football knowledge and talent to play at any position, in my opinion. And being a QB doesn't mean one is necessarily smart in general, perhaps only in football.
Breeding dependency. I am always amazed at how liberals continually enact policies that breed dependency and then express shock and outrage there is more dependency. For years liberals have effectively championed the replacement of the father in the family with government. Then be shocked when there are more single mothers. So surprise, you get more fathers leaving their families. They know taxpayers will take care of their family for them. But now we hear about the plight of single mothers and how we must appropriate more spending for them. To not do so, they tell us, is heartless. Well, without welfare, people would have to rely only on charity and it might not be enough. There's more incentive to stay together, to try to make things work, and so on.
The myth of green jobs. Michigan's governor, Jennifer Granholm, who along with the legislature has destroyed Michigan's economy, is saying how she is going to create 40,000 jobs by 2020. I don't mind creating jobs (with liberals the buzzword is "creating" jobs, but strangely no mention if these are long term jobs), but she is talking about massive taxpayer subsidies (federal and state) and yet 40,000 jobs in 11 years works out to a little over 3600 jobs per year. Taking the $1 billion figure (the figure is likely higher), that works out to $25,000 per job. Not really a great deal considering that it will likely take more money and if it is a government job, you have to keep paying that person. But notice also that by the end of Granholm's term, the state is projected to lose 130,000 more jobs with no end in sight. Again, 40,000 is a drop in the bucket if you have bad policies.
I've written before about the injection of politics into sports. This is a great article for anyone that is interested.
MUST READ
* Fantastic article by Steve Forbes about wealth creation.
* I thought Afghanistan was a war liberals really wanted to win, and Iraq was just a distraction. Apparently not.
* So important are health care reforms that some Senators don't want to apply it to their states.
* Taxing the rich doesn't work out at all like expected.
What Propaganda...and Where is the Media?
* More kids singing to Obama, only this time on the set of CNN.
* Obama invites doctors to the White House, but the media neglects to mention the photo op was staged.
* With the Obamas, it is all about them.
* I definitely like the admission by Maxine Waters that many members would have tax disclosure problems. Would this be counted as evidence of a culture of corruption if it were Republicans...and where is the media?
* Can anyone else see how illegals are going to get health coverage? Also see this.
What Media Bias?
* Liberal TV host laments the incivility in politics, then literally shouts down a guest a day later.
* In what universe are rising unemployment rates good news?
Energy
* How taxes pervert our energy choices.
Miscellaneous
* A lot of black NFL players have said they wouldn't play for a Rush Limbaugh owned team. First to note that these players probably haven't listened to Limbaugh. Second, the media does have quite an effect. To sum up, Limbaugh thought the Eagles defense carried McNabb in his earlier days...up to debate but true in my opinion. He also said the media is desperate for a black QB to succeed. Which is undoubtedly true. Though blacks are statistically overrepresented in football in general, they are not in the QB position. Liberals think that the QB is a "smart" position, so if blacks are underrepresented there they think people will see them as dumb. It does take quite a football knowledge and talent to play at any position, in my opinion. And being a QB doesn't mean one is necessarily smart in general, perhaps only in football.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Since the threats of racism haven't worked, the Democrats are relying on another overused tactic. Calling for civility, talking about the ugly tone in public discourse, and worrying about a "climate of fear". Of course very little of any talk is vitrolic is towards Obama personally, and what is appears to be those led by Lyndon LaRouche, a Democrat. Regardless, where were these Democrats and media types in the 8 years of the Bush administration? Or even the Democrats so far in the Obama administration?
Here are some examples of Democrats:
1. Grayson - Republicans plan for health care is to die quickly
2. Harry Reid calling Bush a loser
3. Nancy Pelosi calling protestors Nazis (Rush Limbaugh's response to this became news but they curiously omitted any reference to Pelosi)
4. John Kerry referencing how he could kill two birds with one stone by going to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (an obvious reference to killing Bush 43)
5. Anderson Cooper referring to Tea Party protestors as teabaggers.
6. Howard Dean - I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.
7. Bill Clinton blaming angry voices on the airwaves (I believe the major one at the time was Rush Limbaugh) for the OK City bombing
Note any pattern here? All of these people are leading Democratic officials or from the media. No major Republican is saying anything close to this. Nor are the Tea Party protestors. But the above list doesn't even include signs about killing Bush at rallies during his Presidency or the movie fantasizing about a Bush assassination.
A big deal was made out of a Facebook group expressing whether Obama should be killed. Which it should be. Any threat against the President should be taken seriously. But where was the media interest in it with Facebook groups wanting to kill George W. Bush? There was no media interest in it then.
The other big news was the Obamas along with Oprah making a pitch for the Olympics coming to Chicago. It failed and Obama was humiliated. I don't like any President being humiliated because he stands for the nation. But regardless, many people in Chicago stood to benefit financially if the Olympics were brought in. A lot of people from the Obama administration and Richard Daley's office, to whom Obama owes a lot of credit for his run to the Presidency.
MUST READ
* Much ado has been made about Republicans being in bed with Wall Street. Reality when it comes to these things is usually opposite. It is Democrats who are given more money from Wall Street. Lest you think this is simply because Democrats have control in Congress (which I am sure is a part of it), it isn't the case overall. For example, Obama getting more than McCain in his short Presidential run vs. McCain's two Presidential runs in about a decade. A good opinion piece on it can be found here.
* Republicans' plan, according to Democrats is to die quickly. Funny, Joe Wilson was admonished for telling the President he was lying (which he was) but strangely no admonishment for this guy. Also this guy has not been mentioned for declining civility.
* This is simply outrageous. Ordering the release of Vice President Cheney's statements in the Valerie Plame case. We've pointed out numerous times that it was Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, who leaked the name (and also was an Iraq War opponent), Plame was not a covert agent, and the whole fiasco with Joe Wilson (not the Congressman) making up stories that the Bush administration lied. Of course, the natural conclusion is that Republican advisors will be hesitant to give their full opinion if they know it will be leaked. Democrats never have to worry about this, as the media will go after anyone who defies their own administration.
* Some of the misleading statements or outright lies from the President's health care speech.
* Some rare truth telling from a Democrat. The ploy has always been speed and deception.
Simple Economics
* People who are ignorant of economics seem to be the only ones surprised that taxing the rich means they leave the state or leave the country.
More Radicals
* Another day, another unvetted czar in the Obama administration. This time, one who didn't report an underage homosexual relationship while being a teacher.
* Tax dollars being used to train students to be union organizers.
What Media Bias?
* More jobless claims are only a surprise if you parrot the administration's line about things getting better.
* The New York Times discounting the terrorist plotters as amateurs. Great, same 9-10 mentality.
Here are some examples of Democrats:
1. Grayson - Republicans plan for health care is to die quickly
2. Harry Reid calling Bush a loser
3. Nancy Pelosi calling protestors Nazis (Rush Limbaugh's response to this became news but they curiously omitted any reference to Pelosi)
4. John Kerry referencing how he could kill two birds with one stone by going to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (an obvious reference to killing Bush 43)
5. Anderson Cooper referring to Tea Party protestors as teabaggers.
6. Howard Dean - I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.
7. Bill Clinton blaming angry voices on the airwaves (I believe the major one at the time was Rush Limbaugh) for the OK City bombing
Note any pattern here? All of these people are leading Democratic officials or from the media. No major Republican is saying anything close to this. Nor are the Tea Party protestors. But the above list doesn't even include signs about killing Bush at rallies during his Presidency or the movie fantasizing about a Bush assassination.
A big deal was made out of a Facebook group expressing whether Obama should be killed. Which it should be. Any threat against the President should be taken seriously. But where was the media interest in it with Facebook groups wanting to kill George W. Bush? There was no media interest in it then.
The other big news was the Obamas along with Oprah making a pitch for the Olympics coming to Chicago. It failed and Obama was humiliated. I don't like any President being humiliated because he stands for the nation. But regardless, many people in Chicago stood to benefit financially if the Olympics were brought in. A lot of people from the Obama administration and Richard Daley's office, to whom Obama owes a lot of credit for his run to the Presidency.
MUST READ
* Much ado has been made about Republicans being in bed with Wall Street. Reality when it comes to these things is usually opposite. It is Democrats who are given more money from Wall Street. Lest you think this is simply because Democrats have control in Congress (which I am sure is a part of it), it isn't the case overall. For example, Obama getting more than McCain in his short Presidential run vs. McCain's two Presidential runs in about a decade. A good opinion piece on it can be found here.
* Republicans' plan, according to Democrats is to die quickly. Funny, Joe Wilson was admonished for telling the President he was lying (which he was) but strangely no admonishment for this guy. Also this guy has not been mentioned for declining civility.
* This is simply outrageous. Ordering the release of Vice President Cheney's statements in the Valerie Plame case. We've pointed out numerous times that it was Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, who leaked the name (and also was an Iraq War opponent), Plame was not a covert agent, and the whole fiasco with Joe Wilson (not the Congressman) making up stories that the Bush administration lied. Of course, the natural conclusion is that Republican advisors will be hesitant to give their full opinion if they know it will be leaked. Democrats never have to worry about this, as the media will go after anyone who defies their own administration.
* Some of the misleading statements or outright lies from the President's health care speech.
* Some rare truth telling from a Democrat. The ploy has always been speed and deception.
Simple Economics
* People who are ignorant of economics seem to be the only ones surprised that taxing the rich means they leave the state or leave the country.
More Radicals
* Another day, another unvetted czar in the Obama administration. This time, one who didn't report an underage homosexual relationship while being a teacher.
* Tax dollars being used to train students to be union organizers.
What Media Bias?
* More jobless claims are only a surprise if you parrot the administration's line about things getting better.
* The New York Times discounting the terrorist plotters as amateurs. Great, same 9-10 mentality.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
For the last 6 years, the left has been screaming about Afghanistan being the "right" war. Now Obama risks losing their support if he sends in more troops. Why? If that is the right fight, shouldn't they be championing it? Apparently not. The only conclusion is that they do not like to see military power used for American interests.
Health reform opponents always acknowledge problems with the current system, but do supporters ever acknowledge benefits? Never! I never hear Obama saying how our system provides for 250 million+ people. Nor do we hear about the great technology and innovative drugs coming out of the U.S. Everything is a crisis that must be solved before anyone can read the proposals.
MUST READ
* One more reason to want to reduce the size and power of government. The Democrats intimidation tactics are in full force.
* The White House is actively pushing for artists to promote partisan political objectives. Just another reason to promote less government.
* I don't like giving too much weight to the opinion of generals just because there are usually a wide range of views about what to do and how to do it. Plus the president is commander-in-chief. However, Obama specifically stated he was going to listen to the generals more than Bush did, but now he appears to be waffling on it.
* Top Obama advisor says no to selling health insurance across state lines. Something that everyone knows would increase competition, which is supposedly one of the administration's top goals.
Tort Reform
* Will Missouri's successful junk lawsuit reform work applied nationally? I don't know, but I do know this is exactly the reason why federalism is so important. Different states can take different approaches. A state in trouble can learn things from another state and so on. If people don't like one state's policies, they can more easily throw out their government or simply move out of the state.
What Radicalism
* Notice any similarities?
* The administration continues to use scare tactics. This time bringing out Michelle Obama.
* Americans are like unruly teenagers? You decide. It wouldn't surprise me, since I think nearly everyone in Washington thinks the American people need someone to make every decision for them.
* A lot more about ACORN. Now we have a coverup of embezzlement by the founder's brother. More hope and change.
* I've mentioned it before, but environmentalists main target seems to be humans. This time letting much California farmland die to protect the delta smelt.
Health reform opponents always acknowledge problems with the current system, but do supporters ever acknowledge benefits? Never! I never hear Obama saying how our system provides for 250 million+ people. Nor do we hear about the great technology and innovative drugs coming out of the U.S. Everything is a crisis that must be solved before anyone can read the proposals.
MUST READ
* One more reason to want to reduce the size and power of government. The Democrats intimidation tactics are in full force.
* The White House is actively pushing for artists to promote partisan political objectives. Just another reason to promote less government.
* I don't like giving too much weight to the opinion of generals just because there are usually a wide range of views about what to do and how to do it. Plus the president is commander-in-chief. However, Obama specifically stated he was going to listen to the generals more than Bush did, but now he appears to be waffling on it.
* Top Obama advisor says no to selling health insurance across state lines. Something that everyone knows would increase competition, which is supposedly one of the administration's top goals.
Tort Reform
* Will Missouri's successful junk lawsuit reform work applied nationally? I don't know, but I do know this is exactly the reason why federalism is so important. Different states can take different approaches. A state in trouble can learn things from another state and so on. If people don't like one state's policies, they can more easily throw out their government or simply move out of the state.
What Radicalism
* Notice any similarities?
* The administration continues to use scare tactics. This time bringing out Michelle Obama.
* Americans are like unruly teenagers? You decide. It wouldn't surprise me, since I think nearly everyone in Washington thinks the American people need someone to make every decision for them.
* A lot more about ACORN. Now we have a coverup of embezzlement by the founder's brother. More hope and change.
* I've mentioned it before, but environmentalists main target seems to be humans. This time letting much California farmland die to protect the delta smelt.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Another great week. I have so much information for this week so I will try to limit it to a reasonable amount.
There was a large march on Capitol Hill protesting Obama's version of health care reform. President Obama and his press secretary expressed shock when hearing about it, as if they didn't know it was going to happen. Obama would most certainly know in case there was any kind of security threat to him personally. Of course the media covered it just as they always do (calling protestors teabaggers, unpatriotic, mobsters, etc.), but this time additionally pulling out the race card. One can always be sure of the race card being pulled when Democrats are losing the argument on substance. Lest any of you think perhaps it was an isolated bunch, here is a sampling pulled from Rush Limbaugh's show:
CAMPBELL BROWN: (music) ...vicious, racist imagery attacking our first African-American president.
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: (newsroom noise) Gentleman Joe Wilson has done much to make the racist history of South Carolina jump back into our present consciousness.
CANDY CROWLEY: (b-roll) Critics think this is about resistance to a black man as president.
JAMES CARVILLE: People are upset with President Obama because of the color of his skin. Who cannot believe that?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Could there be a refusal to accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama as president because of his race?
WOLF BLITZER: A small but disturbing minority within the tea party movement is also blatantly anti-black.
JOHN RIDLEY: When you talk about racial image, this is not just standard debate.
ELAINE QUIJANO: (b-roll) A small but passionate minority is also voicing what some see as racist rhetoric.
JOHN AVLON: Hitler. Communism. Racism. All this ugliness is bubbling up.
ANDERSON COOPER: There is an undercurrent of racism in some of the criticism of the president.
JUAN WILLIAMS: An attack on somebody because you really don't like the fact that they are president or because of their race.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Clearly Barack Obama's race plays some role in the kind of anxieties that are roiling the political right.
CLARENCE PAGE: (outdoor noise) People are not just mad at Obama. They are mad at Jesse Jackson. They are mad at Reverend Wright. They are mad at Al Sharpton. They are mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.
All predictable, all smears. Even the Joe Wilson vote on the Confederate flag is misunderstood. Liberals see the Confederate flag as a flag of racism (though the US flag oversaw more racism than the Confederate one). They will never understand the Confederate flag and the South's affection for it has to do with Southern pride. Amazingly these liberals ignore the Democratic Party's own racist past.
Other big news was more ACORN videos being released, one with a woman saying how she killed her husband and another actually offering to help procure prostitutes from Central America. Of course the ACORN top brass is expressing shock at this and trying to explain it was just low level employees doing the acts. Which makes me wonder...how do such low level employees have such an intricate knowledge of how to avoid taxes? And the knowledge about gaming the system? I'm pretty confident such things are rampant, not isolated incidents. Thankfully, this has led both houses of Congress to pass resolutions withdrawing federal funding for ACORN.
The other big news is Obama canceling the missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. The bottom line other countries will see is that America does not keep its promises.
MUST READ/SEE
* ACORN caught again.
* The left is really the least tolerant of all.
* An offer to hire the ACORN ladies. Everyone is a capitalist in their own life.
* Video of ACORN in San Diego.
* Another ACORN video in San Bernadino, CA. This is the one talking about killing her husband.
* How to tell if you are a racist.
Silly Liberals
* Interesting to compare the scene after Obama's inauguration with the scene after the recent protest. I thought liberals were all for going green.
* Dissent is not so patriotic after all. I have given serious thought to donating to Wilson's campaign.
* Even Jimmy Carter got in on calling protestors racist.
What Media Bias?
* Well, well, it looks like Palin was right after all.
* Journalists are complaining about gotcha journalism done by the ACORN exposers...unfortunately the news networks have a pretty good history of doing that themselves. (Not that it all is necessarily bad, but when liberals can't complain about substance they complain about process.)
Bad Science
* Wind power isn't so powerful after all.
* Green energy is largely a myth, unless you're talking nuclear.
* Two stories regarding evolution here and here. As Ann Coulter points out, every time there is new evidence the theory of evolution changes. But don't dare question evolution!
Our Justice System At Work
* This is a local story for me, judge overturns woman's OWI (DWI in MN) conviction based on not enough time before submitting to the breath test. Notice what is missing? She still blew over the limit so there is no doubt she was illegally operating a vehicle. This is a perversion of justice.
Health Care Reform
* 45% of doctors would consider quitting if the overhaul passes. Not surprising if one has even the basic knowledge of economics and Medicare. Doctors are already getting shafted on Medicare payments. It will also result in fewer people deciding to become doctors in the first place. Alas, but then that will be a new problem for our government to "solve".
* I don't like posting stuff like this, but since liberals are claiming it is compassionate to pass government health care, shouldn't we examine who is really more compassionate?
There was a large march on Capitol Hill protesting Obama's version of health care reform. President Obama and his press secretary expressed shock when hearing about it, as if they didn't know it was going to happen. Obama would most certainly know in case there was any kind of security threat to him personally. Of course the media covered it just as they always do (calling protestors teabaggers, unpatriotic, mobsters, etc.), but this time additionally pulling out the race card. One can always be sure of the race card being pulled when Democrats are losing the argument on substance. Lest any of you think perhaps it was an isolated bunch, here is a sampling pulled from Rush Limbaugh's show:
CAMPBELL BROWN: (music) ...vicious, racist imagery attacking our first African-American president.
LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: (newsroom noise) Gentleman Joe Wilson has done much to make the racist history of South Carolina jump back into our present consciousness.
CANDY CROWLEY: (b-roll) Critics think this is about resistance to a black man as president.
JAMES CARVILLE: People are upset with President Obama because of the color of his skin. Who cannot believe that?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Could there be a refusal to accept the legitimacy of Barack Obama as president because of his race?
WOLF BLITZER: A small but disturbing minority within the tea party movement is also blatantly anti-black.
JOHN RIDLEY: When you talk about racial image, this is not just standard debate.
ELAINE QUIJANO: (b-roll) A small but passionate minority is also voicing what some see as racist rhetoric.
JOHN AVLON: Hitler. Communism. Racism. All this ugliness is bubbling up.
ANDERSON COOPER: There is an undercurrent of racism in some of the criticism of the president.
JUAN WILLIAMS: An attack on somebody because you really don't like the fact that they are president or because of their race.
ROSS DOUTHAT: Clearly Barack Obama's race plays some role in the kind of anxieties that are roiling the political right.
CLARENCE PAGE: (outdoor noise) People are not just mad at Obama. They are mad at Jesse Jackson. They are mad at Reverend Wright. They are mad at Al Sharpton. They are mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.
All predictable, all smears. Even the Joe Wilson vote on the Confederate flag is misunderstood. Liberals see the Confederate flag as a flag of racism (though the US flag oversaw more racism than the Confederate one). They will never understand the Confederate flag and the South's affection for it has to do with Southern pride. Amazingly these liberals ignore the Democratic Party's own racist past.
Other big news was more ACORN videos being released, one with a woman saying how she killed her husband and another actually offering to help procure prostitutes from Central America. Of course the ACORN top brass is expressing shock at this and trying to explain it was just low level employees doing the acts. Which makes me wonder...how do such low level employees have such an intricate knowledge of how to avoid taxes? And the knowledge about gaming the system? I'm pretty confident such things are rampant, not isolated incidents. Thankfully, this has led both houses of Congress to pass resolutions withdrawing federal funding for ACORN.
The other big news is Obama canceling the missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. The bottom line other countries will see is that America does not keep its promises.
MUST READ/SEE
* ACORN caught again.
* The left is really the least tolerant of all.
* An offer to hire the ACORN ladies. Everyone is a capitalist in their own life.
* Video of ACORN in San Diego.
* Another ACORN video in San Bernadino, CA. This is the one talking about killing her husband.
* How to tell if you are a racist.
Silly Liberals
* Interesting to compare the scene after Obama's inauguration with the scene after the recent protest. I thought liberals were all for going green.
* Dissent is not so patriotic after all. I have given serious thought to donating to Wilson's campaign.
* Even Jimmy Carter got in on calling protestors racist.
What Media Bias?
* Well, well, it looks like Palin was right after all.
* Journalists are complaining about gotcha journalism done by the ACORN exposers...unfortunately the news networks have a pretty good history of doing that themselves. (Not that it all is necessarily bad, but when liberals can't complain about substance they complain about process.)
Bad Science
* Wind power isn't so powerful after all.
* Green energy is largely a myth, unless you're talking nuclear.
* Two stories regarding evolution here and here. As Ann Coulter points out, every time there is new evidence the theory of evolution changes. But don't dare question evolution!
Our Justice System At Work
* This is a local story for me, judge overturns woman's OWI (DWI in MN) conviction based on not enough time before submitting to the breath test. Notice what is missing? She still blew over the limit so there is no doubt she was illegally operating a vehicle. This is a perversion of justice.
Health Care Reform
* 45% of doctors would consider quitting if the overhaul passes. Not surprising if one has even the basic knowledge of economics and Medicare. Doctors are already getting shafted on Medicare payments. It will also result in fewer people deciding to become doctors in the first place. Alas, but then that will be a new problem for our government to "solve".
* I don't like posting stuff like this, but since liberals are claiming it is compassionate to pass government health care, shouldn't we examine who is really more compassionate?
Sunday, September 13, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Still a lot going on in the health care front this week. The big news was Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress. As with all Obama's speeches, it is couched in terms of what we must do, but it is based off strictly what Democrats want. The media ignores what Republicans are pushing, and presto, Republicans have no plans and Obama really cares about you. There was a curious admission from Obama though. During the speech, he said "30 million citizens". Is this a tacit admission that there are possibly 17 million illegals? I thought the number was 47 million, the figure Obama has used in all his other speeches. During the speech, Representative Joe Wilson (not to be confused with Democrat liar Joe Wilson claiming Iraq wasn't trying to buy uranium from Niger) shouted at Obama that he was lying. Which is undoubtedly true. In usual fashion, the feckless Republican leadership demanded Wilson apologize. So Wilson did. Now Democrats are saying they will admonish him unless he apologizes on the House floor. He should not. They were no calls to my knowledge of Democrats making their members apologize for booing Bush during his addresses. It's time for Republicans to quit being wussies and realize current Democrats really are radical and are bent on harming the country as we know it.
A couple other thoughts on my mind:
* Why should the rich pay more in any system? Isn't that discrimination? If everyone had to pay taxes we'd see change a lot easier.
* A funny comment I heard, pretty soon Obama will be blaming his low poll numbers on Bush, saying he inherited those too.
* Why is the media not lionizing our general in Afghanistan for calling for more troops like they did General Shinseki under Bush? They said Shinseki was speaking truth to power. Why the double standard?
MUST READ
* Exposing ACORN for helping out a pimp and prostitute, even with the importation of underage Central American girls. This has happened in both Baltimore and DC (see this), so I don't buy that it is a couple bad employees. ACORN is morally bankrupt.
* Why do Americans spend more on health care?
* Remember, Obama was once a lawyer for ACORN. A good article exposing how ACORN steals democracy.
* After all the scandals surrounding ACORN, why would you want them having to do anything with the census? If this was something done in the previous administration, I still condemn it. But what are the chances of the affiliation being ended had ACORN not been exposed?
* We are betraying the dead.
Liberal Lies on Health Care
* Taking on the lies from the left regarding how the House bill would not allow illegals to be covered or abortions. It also points out some ridiculous things people have to pay for in their health insurance, like breast implants, drug rehab, and marriage counseling.
* How to make an Obama speech (especially on health care).
Silly Liberals
* This is ridiculous. Notice how Gaddafi is a temporary member of the Security Council. Why would you help give legitimacy to such a farce as the UN?
* Why was there a huge rush to push the health care resolution through Congress when it wouldn't go into effect until 2013? Obama also promises to get savings by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare. Why not just pass that part of it right now?
* Obama's environmental czar was a true radical. And according to a close aide to Obama, Valerie Jarrett, they've had their eye on Van Jones for a while. The only conclusion is that Obama actually agrees with much of what Van Jones has done and said.
What Media Bias?
* The media was itching to write a comeback story for Obama. Perino wrote the piece before Obama's speech and was right on in how it was covered.
* Bias in deciding to publish photos of a dying Marine. Compared to not putting out the Mohammed cartoons.
A couple other thoughts on my mind:
* Why should the rich pay more in any system? Isn't that discrimination? If everyone had to pay taxes we'd see change a lot easier.
* A funny comment I heard, pretty soon Obama will be blaming his low poll numbers on Bush, saying he inherited those too.
* Why is the media not lionizing our general in Afghanistan for calling for more troops like they did General Shinseki under Bush? They said Shinseki was speaking truth to power. Why the double standard?
MUST READ
* Exposing ACORN for helping out a pimp and prostitute, even with the importation of underage Central American girls. This has happened in both Baltimore and DC (see this), so I don't buy that it is a couple bad employees. ACORN is morally bankrupt.
* Why do Americans spend more on health care?
* Remember, Obama was once a lawyer for ACORN. A good article exposing how ACORN steals democracy.
* After all the scandals surrounding ACORN, why would you want them having to do anything with the census? If this was something done in the previous administration, I still condemn it. But what are the chances of the affiliation being ended had ACORN not been exposed?
* We are betraying the dead.
Liberal Lies on Health Care
* Taking on the lies from the left regarding how the House bill would not allow illegals to be covered or abortions. It also points out some ridiculous things people have to pay for in their health insurance, like breast implants, drug rehab, and marriage counseling.
* How to make an Obama speech (especially on health care).
Silly Liberals
* This is ridiculous. Notice how Gaddafi is a temporary member of the Security Council. Why would you help give legitimacy to such a farce as the UN?
* Why was there a huge rush to push the health care resolution through Congress when it wouldn't go into effect until 2013? Obama also promises to get savings by cutting waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare. Why not just pass that part of it right now?
* Obama's environmental czar was a true radical. And according to a close aide to Obama, Valerie Jarrett, they've had their eye on Van Jones for a while. The only conclusion is that Obama actually agrees with much of what Van Jones has done and said.
What Media Bias?
* The media was itching to write a comeback story for Obama. Perino wrote the piece before Obama's speech and was right on in how it was covered.
* Bias in deciding to publish photos of a dying Marine. Compared to not putting out the Mohammed cartoons.
Monday, September 7, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
This week seemed to me to be the most boring in a long time as far as news is concerned. So I don't have a whole lot to talk about nor do I have that many articles. I'm going to try to start posting things more often so you get news and commentary faster and I don't forget as much.
Someone finally counted the number of times Obama has spoken on health care, whether it be townhalls, television speeches, speeches at public events, etc. Anyone want to guess? 111. He hasn't even been in office a year.
With all the talk of spending, printing money, we really could be at risk for not only inflation, but hyperinflation. I sent out an article a while back about Argentina with the warning that it could happen here. But why is inflation so bad? Simply because it benefits debtors at the expense of creditors. If I loan you $100, that $100 buys a certain amount of goods. When prices rise due to inflation, that $100 buys considerably less than it used to. In terms of the amount of goods that money will purchase, with inflation now the amount you owe is less than what it used to be, while I am getting back considerably less than the value I loaned out.
MUST READ
* What we can learn from Soviet medicine.
* I'm starting to wish Cheney would have run in 2008. He gets the point across effectively.
* It is important to look beyond the initial effects of government programs. Case in point Cash for Clunkers.
* Continuing government lies about the cost of their programs. Are they ever right?
Obama, the Radical
* Obama continues to surround himself with radicals. In this case Van Jones. Thankfully Jones has resigned, but isn't the saying you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep?
* And yet another radical, John Holdren.
* Rove is right. Obama is on the verge of losing trust.
Silly Liberals
* Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is already behind in the polls for reelection. Now he has apparently decided to take on the newspaper in his home state.
* Shouldn't lawmakers be more concerned about the safety of their citizens? Apparently not.
* Credit the Times for reporting it, but does anyone put two and two together? The teenage unemployment rate is over 25%. Remember last summer when the minimum wage went up? Couple that with a recession and it's no wonder they get hurt the hardest. The minimum wage doesn't really help when more of them don't have a job.
Limiting Liberty
* Proposal to allow the Obama administration to control the Internet in an emergency.
Someone finally counted the number of times Obama has spoken on health care, whether it be townhalls, television speeches, speeches at public events, etc. Anyone want to guess? 111. He hasn't even been in office a year.
With all the talk of spending, printing money, we really could be at risk for not only inflation, but hyperinflation. I sent out an article a while back about Argentina with the warning that it could happen here. But why is inflation so bad? Simply because it benefits debtors at the expense of creditors. If I loan you $100, that $100 buys a certain amount of goods. When prices rise due to inflation, that $100 buys considerably less than it used to. In terms of the amount of goods that money will purchase, with inflation now the amount you owe is less than what it used to be, while I am getting back considerably less than the value I loaned out.
MUST READ
* What we can learn from Soviet medicine.
* I'm starting to wish Cheney would have run in 2008. He gets the point across effectively.
* It is important to look beyond the initial effects of government programs. Case in point Cash for Clunkers.
* Continuing government lies about the cost of their programs. Are they ever right?
Obama, the Radical
* Obama continues to surround himself with radicals. In this case Van Jones. Thankfully Jones has resigned, but isn't the saying you can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep?
* And yet another radical, John Holdren.
* Rove is right. Obama is on the verge of losing trust.
Silly Liberals
* Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is already behind in the polls for reelection. Now he has apparently decided to take on the newspaper in his home state.
* Shouldn't lawmakers be more concerned about the safety of their citizens? Apparently not.
* Credit the Times for reporting it, but does anyone put two and two together? The teenage unemployment rate is over 25%. Remember last summer when the minimum wage went up? Couple that with a recession and it's no wonder they get hurt the hardest. The minimum wage doesn't really help when more of them don't have a job.
Limiting Liberty
* Proposal to allow the Obama administration to control the Internet in an emergency.
Monday, August 31, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Of course the big news was the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy. I didn't much care for Ted and disagreed with pretty much everything he did. The saying goes, if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it. So I won't. My only issue is with the media. The media (and some Democrats) are trying to use the Senator's death as a ramrod to force socialized medicine down everyone's throat. As usual, by pointing out that Democrats (and more the media) are playing politics with Ted Kennedy's death, conservatives are accused of playing politics. It's not that conservatives actually are doing anything political, just pointing out what Democrats are doing. So for pointing out the truth they are accused of playing politics. Here is a short transcript from Rush Limbaugh emphasizing the point.
RUSH ARCHIVE (said by Rush months ago): If they get national health care, folks, the country as you and I have known it is over, but the failing health of Senator Kennedy, as I told you way back when, a driving force here. The failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort or technique to get national health care on the fast track. Before it's all over it will be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill.
RUSH (this week): Well, they just erupted out there in the State-Run Media. They just had a cow over this, so let's go to State-Run Media. We'll go to the CBS Early Show today, Harry Smith talking with the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley about the passing of Senator Kennedy. Harry Smith said, "As we think about him, is there a way to sort of sum up what his life was?"
BRINKLEY: Well, the health care debate that we're in the middle of right now, I mean it's been a summer of town hall meetings, we're going to head into September and October, and I think the ghost of Ted Kennedy, the spirit of Ted Kennedy is going to be with that health care debate. Democrats are going to try to push universal health care through as the legacy piece for Teddy Kennedy.
RUSH: I just caught hell for saying this. I caught literal hell in the media for saying this, and here's Norah O'Donnell this morning on MSNBC. She was asked the question, "What's the impact of Ted Kennedy's passing on health care reform?"
O'DONNELL: I think there's a huge impact. Ted Kennedy asked President Obama to promise him that this would get done because, as Ted Kennedy had said, this is the cause of his lifetime.
RUSH: David Gregory, the moderator of Meet the Press had this exchange with Savannah Guthrie of MSNBC about Ted Kennedy this morning.
GUTHRIE: I wonder what you think the impact of his passing will be now on this battle. Is there a possibility that there will be some new groundswell of bipartisanship that it could be a change of tone, or does all of that pass with him?
GREGORY: This was a great cause of his life, getting health care reform. There's no question that Kennedy will still loom large as this debate moves forward.
RUSH: And this morning on CNN's American Morning the co-hostette Kiran Chetry spoke with senior political analyst Gloria Borger about the passing of Senator Kennedy. She said, "As we move forward with this health care debate, what direction does it take now in your opinion? We've seen at times it gets nasty and personal out there."
BORGER: The Democrats will continue to talk about the legacy of Ted Kennedy and try to pass some version of health care reform that Ted Kennedy would have supported and would have liked.
RUSH: Donna Brazile on CNN this morning said this.
BRAZILE: This will help to redouble the efforts of those who would truly like to see some major reform of our health insurance system in this country, and I hope that when Congress returns to work in a couple weeks they will not only remember Ted Kennedy, but also remember what he fought for. This would have been a fight that he would lead to the bitter end.
RUSH: Over at ABC the official doctor over there, Dr. Timothy Johnson, was asked by Chris Cuomo about this. "Who will take up the mantle of fairness and the right of health care? A very big fight ahead."
CUOMO: His memory will be constantly interjected into the debate and in that sense he will be a part of it.
RUSH: Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat, West Virginia, the only Senator to have served longer than the late Senator Kennedy mourned his friend today, saying his heart and soul weeps. Senator Byrd said that he hoped health care reform legislation in the Senate would be renamed in memoriam of Kennedy. "I had hoped and prayed that this day would never come," Byrd said in a statement. "My heart and soul weeps at the loss of my best friend in the Senate, my beloved friend, Ted Kennedy. In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American." Nancy Pelosi has pretty much said the same thing: "Kennedy health reform dream will be real this year." So I predicted this. Well, anybody could have predicted this. We know these people like the back of our hands. (interruption) Well, it doesn't matter. I predicted it, and I caught all kinds of grief for it out there. And here's Gregory Meeks, Democrat, New York, on CNBC Squawk Box talking with Carl Quintanilla, who asked if Senator Kennedy's memory would play a role in the health care debate. Gregory Meeks said, "Yeah, his memory definitely will. We hope his death will cause us to sit down like never before. That would be a fitting tribute to Senator Ed Kennedy." That's from Gregory Meeks. It didn't take long. Now, when I think of dealing with the entire health care debate here, I think the experiences of Senator Kennedy are actually somewhat instructive. The left is exploiting his death and his legacy, and they're going to do it, which I predicted, to push health care through.
***END OF RUSH***
It is quite clear the media are simply cheerleaders for Obama rather than the objective unbiased people they claim to be.
Anyways, a couple other things I wanted to mention. Democrats (and their mouthpieces in the media) continue to claim the health bills won't cover illegals and won't cover abortions. Yet the Democrats specifically blocked amendments that would prohibit it. Why? If it didn't cover them, those amendments would certainly calm fears about that and give opponents less ammunition. They are specifically left vague to be fulfilled at a later date. Given Democrats' natural fondness of both illegal immigrants and abortion (not to mention they always include illegals by mentioning the 47 million number), it is common sense to conclude those will be covered. Democrats can never be open and honest about their true intentions, or their proposals would be rejected outright by the American people.
The second thing is that many people think regulation has no costs attached to it. This isn't true of course. Not only does it require lawyers, sometimes hiring of outside attorneys, but also a legal and litigation staff. I should know since we have that where I work. Of course we are big enough to be able to afford them, so we can spread our costs over a greater number of transactions than someone just starting out. All large companies know that regulation benefits them. It keeps competition down. There are always costs to every economic decision.
MUST READ
* This is very disheartening. Coddle the terrorists, prosecute those who kept this country safe. Of course Obama is feigning ignorance. Attorney General Holder reports to Obama. If Obama didn't want it to go forward, it wouldn't go forward.
Health Care
* Why should we trust the government when their projections were wrong before?
* It is all about power. Not to worry, Obama is used to this from his Chicago days.
* Yet another wonder of socialized medicine.
War on Terror
* I hope Cheney continues to come out swinging like this. The administration seems to be more focused on waging war against the CIA and conservatives like Rush Limbaugh than they do against our actual enemies.
Silly Liberals
* Another fake hate crime perpetrated by the left. No doubt to try to taint the townhall protests around the country. Not that the right is immune from perpetrating fake crimes.
* Can the government run anything? They have a pretty poor track record.
Protecting Liberty
* Shariah law can come here. It is already happening in Britain.
Basic Economics
* Without profit, there is no competition or incentive.
RUSH ARCHIVE (said by Rush months ago): If they get national health care, folks, the country as you and I have known it is over, but the failing health of Senator Kennedy, as I told you way back when, a driving force here. The failing health of Senator Kennedy is already being used as an inspirational effort or technique to get national health care on the fast track. Before it's all over it will be called the Ted Kennedy Memorial Health Care bill.
RUSH (this week): Well, they just erupted out there in the State-Run Media. They just had a cow over this, so let's go to State-Run Media. We'll go to the CBS Early Show today, Harry Smith talking with the presidential historian Douglas Brinkley about the passing of Senator Kennedy. Harry Smith said, "As we think about him, is there a way to sort of sum up what his life was?"
BRINKLEY: Well, the health care debate that we're in the middle of right now, I mean it's been a summer of town hall meetings, we're going to head into September and October, and I think the ghost of Ted Kennedy, the spirit of Ted Kennedy is going to be with that health care debate. Democrats are going to try to push universal health care through as the legacy piece for Teddy Kennedy.
RUSH: I just caught hell for saying this. I caught literal hell in the media for saying this, and here's Norah O'Donnell this morning on MSNBC. She was asked the question, "What's the impact of Ted Kennedy's passing on health care reform?"
O'DONNELL: I think there's a huge impact. Ted Kennedy asked President Obama to promise him that this would get done because, as Ted Kennedy had said, this is the cause of his lifetime.
RUSH: David Gregory, the moderator of Meet the Press had this exchange with Savannah Guthrie of MSNBC about Ted Kennedy this morning.
GUTHRIE: I wonder what you think the impact of his passing will be now on this battle. Is there a possibility that there will be some new groundswell of bipartisanship that it could be a change of tone, or does all of that pass with him?
GREGORY: This was a great cause of his life, getting health care reform. There's no question that Kennedy will still loom large as this debate moves forward.
RUSH: And this morning on CNN's American Morning the co-hostette Kiran Chetry spoke with senior political analyst Gloria Borger about the passing of Senator Kennedy. She said, "As we move forward with this health care debate, what direction does it take now in your opinion? We've seen at times it gets nasty and personal out there."
BORGER: The Democrats will continue to talk about the legacy of Ted Kennedy and try to pass some version of health care reform that Ted Kennedy would have supported and would have liked.
RUSH: Donna Brazile on CNN this morning said this.
BRAZILE: This will help to redouble the efforts of those who would truly like to see some major reform of our health insurance system in this country, and I hope that when Congress returns to work in a couple weeks they will not only remember Ted Kennedy, but also remember what he fought for. This would have been a fight that he would lead to the bitter end.
RUSH: Over at ABC the official doctor over there, Dr. Timothy Johnson, was asked by Chris Cuomo about this. "Who will take up the mantle of fairness and the right of health care? A very big fight ahead."
CUOMO: His memory will be constantly interjected into the debate and in that sense he will be a part of it.
RUSH: Senator Robert Byrd, Democrat, West Virginia, the only Senator to have served longer than the late Senator Kennedy mourned his friend today, saying his heart and soul weeps. Senator Byrd said that he hoped health care reform legislation in the Senate would be renamed in memoriam of Kennedy. "I had hoped and prayed that this day would never come," Byrd said in a statement. "My heart and soul weeps at the loss of my best friend in the Senate, my beloved friend, Ted Kennedy. In his honor and as a tribute to his commitment to his ideals, let us stop the shouting and name calling and have a civilized debate on health care reform which I hope, when legislation has been signed into law, will bear his name for his commitment to insuring the health of every American." Nancy Pelosi has pretty much said the same thing: "Kennedy health reform dream will be real this year." So I predicted this. Well, anybody could have predicted this. We know these people like the back of our hands. (interruption) Well, it doesn't matter. I predicted it, and I caught all kinds of grief for it out there. And here's Gregory Meeks, Democrat, New York, on CNBC Squawk Box talking with Carl Quintanilla, who asked if Senator Kennedy's memory would play a role in the health care debate. Gregory Meeks said, "Yeah, his memory definitely will. We hope his death will cause us to sit down like never before. That would be a fitting tribute to Senator Ed Kennedy." That's from Gregory Meeks. It didn't take long. Now, when I think of dealing with the entire health care debate here, I think the experiences of Senator Kennedy are actually somewhat instructive. The left is exploiting his death and his legacy, and they're going to do it, which I predicted, to push health care through.
***END OF RUSH***
It is quite clear the media are simply cheerleaders for Obama rather than the objective unbiased people they claim to be.
Anyways, a couple other things I wanted to mention. Democrats (and their mouthpieces in the media) continue to claim the health bills won't cover illegals and won't cover abortions. Yet the Democrats specifically blocked amendments that would prohibit it. Why? If it didn't cover them, those amendments would certainly calm fears about that and give opponents less ammunition. They are specifically left vague to be fulfilled at a later date. Given Democrats' natural fondness of both illegal immigrants and abortion (not to mention they always include illegals by mentioning the 47 million number), it is common sense to conclude those will be covered. Democrats can never be open and honest about their true intentions, or their proposals would be rejected outright by the American people.
The second thing is that many people think regulation has no costs attached to it. This isn't true of course. Not only does it require lawyers, sometimes hiring of outside attorneys, but also a legal and litigation staff. I should know since we have that where I work. Of course we are big enough to be able to afford them, so we can spread our costs over a greater number of transactions than someone just starting out. All large companies know that regulation benefits them. It keeps competition down. There are always costs to every economic decision.
MUST READ
* This is very disheartening. Coddle the terrorists, prosecute those who kept this country safe. Of course Obama is feigning ignorance. Attorney General Holder reports to Obama. If Obama didn't want it to go forward, it wouldn't go forward.
Health Care
* Why should we trust the government when their projections were wrong before?
* It is all about power. Not to worry, Obama is used to this from his Chicago days.
* Yet another wonder of socialized medicine.
War on Terror
* I hope Cheney continues to come out swinging like this. The administration seems to be more focused on waging war against the CIA and conservatives like Rush Limbaugh than they do against our actual enemies.
Silly Liberals
* Another fake hate crime perpetrated by the left. No doubt to try to taint the townhall protests around the country. Not that the right is immune from perpetrating fake crimes.
* Can the government run anything? They have a pretty poor track record.
Protecting Liberty
* Shariah law can come here. It is already happening in Britain.
Basic Economics
* Without profit, there is no competition or incentive.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
Sorry this one is so late. My brother and his girlfriend came to visit me and I wanted him to stay an extra day so I didn't get this done within the normal time frame I would have.
President Obama is simply exhausting to follow. This is a general trend with leftists as well. Everything is political and anything is an excuse to inject politics. They are relentless as well. Never stopping.
One always hears about Democrats needing to repackage their message. While health care reform is very unpopular (Obama's version of it), Democrats maintain they only need to repackage their message. Which makes it so that it is the voters' fault for not understanding. In the nice version. In the not-so-nice one, it means voters are too stupid to know what Democrats were saying. If they truly understood, Democrats claim, they would be on board.
MUST READ
* Democrats keep attacking those who produce. This time they are going after insurance companies.
* Big companies love big government.
* Can someone tell me how this is possible? Democrats have supermajorities in both Houses of Congress as well as the Presidency. Amazingly even after being soundly defeated last year (and many on the left claiming the GOP was dead), the GOP apparently holds limitless power.
* Most people probably wouldn't have a problem with a secret terrorist assassination program even if it were true.
* What happened to the anti-war movement? I've noticed this before as well, but it dropped off the radar once Obama became President. Either no one is protesting or the media dropped their coverage of it.
Health Care
* Canadians are ready to reform their system, which has been held up as an example of how health care reform can work.
* It is easy to foresee what government health care would evolve in to. We already have examples.
* Coulter is right. Best way to lower prices is to make insurance companies compete. Too bad Obama's lies are propagated by the media without any question.
* Any threat against the President should be taken seriously, though the media was silent when the threats were against Bush.
Giving Up Liberty
* The Brits are already giving up liberty under the guise of political correctness.
Environmentalism
* Many environmentalists don't seem to understand it is technology and capitalism that allow more civilized life possible as well as not polluting as much.
* Environmentalism for the hardcore is not about truth. It is about power and control.
President Obama is simply exhausting to follow. This is a general trend with leftists as well. Everything is political and anything is an excuse to inject politics. They are relentless as well. Never stopping.
One always hears about Democrats needing to repackage their message. While health care reform is very unpopular (Obama's version of it), Democrats maintain they only need to repackage their message. Which makes it so that it is the voters' fault for not understanding. In the nice version. In the not-so-nice one, it means voters are too stupid to know what Democrats were saying. If they truly understood, Democrats claim, they would be on board.
MUST READ
* Democrats keep attacking those who produce. This time they are going after insurance companies.
* Big companies love big government.
* Can someone tell me how this is possible? Democrats have supermajorities in both Houses of Congress as well as the Presidency. Amazingly even after being soundly defeated last year (and many on the left claiming the GOP was dead), the GOP apparently holds limitless power.
* Most people probably wouldn't have a problem with a secret terrorist assassination program even if it were true.
* What happened to the anti-war movement? I've noticed this before as well, but it dropped off the radar once Obama became President. Either no one is protesting or the media dropped their coverage of it.
Health Care
* Canadians are ready to reform their system, which has been held up as an example of how health care reform can work.
* It is easy to foresee what government health care would evolve in to. We already have examples.
* Coulter is right. Best way to lower prices is to make insurance companies compete. Too bad Obama's lies are propagated by the media without any question.
* Any threat against the President should be taken seriously, though the media was silent when the threats were against Bush.
Giving Up Liberty
* The Brits are already giving up liberty under the guise of political correctness.
Environmentalism
* Many environmentalists don't seem to understand it is technology and capitalism that allow more civilized life possible as well as not polluting as much.
* Environmentalism for the hardcore is not about truth. It is about power and control.
Sunday, August 16, 2009
The Weekly Enlightenment
So much was going on this week, but the big debate is still about health care. Democrats have still been cancelling townhall meetings, not advertising them, and stacking them with supporters. Obama has been trying to rally support and showing that without the teleprompter he is not as smooth a speaker and not nearly as convincing. Here is Obama saying free market companies are doing fine, but it is the Post Office in trouble. If the Post Office is having trouble (despite having laws against private companies for certain types of mail), why should we trust government to run anything else? Beyond that, supporters are still being called Nazis, suggested they are wearing swastikas, and acting like a mob. The only ones making references to Nazis are Nancy Pelosi and actual Democrats. Rush Limbaugh responds to Pelosi and the media acts like Pelosi never said anything and Rush is comparing Obama to Hitler (he isn't of course). With the mob-like behavior it is Obama supporters, not opponents, who are using thug tactics. Also amazing is that Democrats thought disruption and mob-like behavior was just fine when it was Bush who was President.
Obama has also been saying how the current system is breaking. If so, why would you allow people to keep their current plan?
Obama also isn't serious about reducing costs because if he were, he would be suggesting tort reform as well. It shows how wedded to trial lawyers he is, as well as the Democratic party.
Must Read
* Are we really supposed to believe Obama doesn't want a single payer system? That's what he wanted back in 2003.
* Government intervention always limits someone's liberty.
* The media is being so blatant supporting Obama, they are dropping any pretense (they ever had) of objectivity. Dissent is only patriotic when a Republican is in office.
* It is going to be cheaper for employers to drop their employees on the public health plan. So the end result will be millions on the public option.
Health Care
* Courtesy of Chuck Norris, there will be home visits for newborn parents in the health care bill. Whose values will be taught?
* If organizations are already being forced against their will, what will happen when the monstrous health care bill is passed?
* Obama keeps saying one thing and doing another thing. How can we trust him?
* According to Rahm Emanuel's brother, doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously. Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff for Obama and his brother is an adviser to President Obama.
Taxes
* 7 myths regarding taxing the rich.
Basic Economics
* We never learn from our mistakes when it comes to government programs.
Obama has also been saying how the current system is breaking. If so, why would you allow people to keep their current plan?
Obama also isn't serious about reducing costs because if he were, he would be suggesting tort reform as well. It shows how wedded to trial lawyers he is, as well as the Democratic party.
Must Read
* Are we really supposed to believe Obama doesn't want a single payer system? That's what he wanted back in 2003.
* Government intervention always limits someone's liberty.
* The media is being so blatant supporting Obama, they are dropping any pretense (they ever had) of objectivity. Dissent is only patriotic when a Republican is in office.
* It is going to be cheaper for employers to drop their employees on the public health plan. So the end result will be millions on the public option.
Health Care
* Courtesy of Chuck Norris, there will be home visits for newborn parents in the health care bill. Whose values will be taught?
* If organizations are already being forced against their will, what will happen when the monstrous health care bill is passed?
* Obama keeps saying one thing and doing another thing. How can we trust him?
* According to Rahm Emanuel's brother, doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously. Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff for Obama and his brother is an adviser to President Obama.
Taxes
* 7 myths regarding taxing the rich.
Basic Economics
* We never learn from our mistakes when it comes to government programs.
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